PLAYERS:
Jair Jurrjens,
Tim Wakefield,
RA Dickey,
Wil Myers
TEAMS: Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets
TEAMS: Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets
With the Atlanta Braves shopping Jair Jurrjens, the question that everyone should want answered is whether or not Jurrjens is a lemon. Is the drop in his velocity attributable to injury, or is he simply losing velocity the natural way. The only way we will know for sure is if someone states so pu...
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