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Wednesday Walk Watch: Week fiWteen

Found July 22, 2009 on Bugs & Cranks:
PLAYERS: Miguel Olivo
TEAMS: Kansas City Royals

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Look, I don’t know what the hell happened this week. For fourteen weeks, we had a nice little thing going. Benjie Molina and Miguel Olivo. Two catchers, one in each league. Both of them flatly refusing to accept a walk. While known free swingers around the majors — Alfie Soriano, Vlady Guerrero, “Swingin’ Yuni” Betancourt — piled up the bases on balls, Molina and Olivo held their ground. Three walks apiece; less than one per month. Molina hadn’t walked un-intentionally since the middle of May. It seemed possible — even likely — that these two poor saps might never walk again. That was before this week. Last time we checked on Molina, our front-runner for the What, Me Walky? award, he was up to 296 at bats...
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