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Third baseman keeps proving he was a key acquisition for the club, even if he sometimes questions whether he is good enough to play in the major leagues.
I was telling Manny Ramirez the other day I was going to do a nice story on the Dodgers' best mid-season acquisition a year ago, Manny laughing because he knew I was talking about Casey Blake .
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