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		<title>Rizzo Gets His Pitcher &#8212; Nats Sign Jackson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam Dunn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to believe that Edwin Jackson is the pitcher that Mike Rizzo always wanted. Back when Adam Dunn was engaging in his version of Anacostia&#8217;s aerial bombardment, Rizzo thought of shipping him out to Chicago for Jackson, a stocky hard-throwing righty in Rizzo&#8217;s former organization &#8212; the Arizona Diamondbacks. That deal never went through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price For Gio</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/oakland-as/the-price-for-gio</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brad Peacock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gio Gonzalez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably just a coincidence, but on the day that Tom Boswell pummeled the Lerners and Mike Rizzo for refusing to spend money (or take chances), the team pulled off a major trade with the Oakland A&#8217;s. Maybe Mikey was feeling the heat. Maybe not. Either way, the deal brings uber-talented lefty Gio Gonzalez to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Yo, Adrian&#8221; &#8212; Carpenter Nails The Phillies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jayson Werth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Morse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Playoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Clippard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Phillies Phans this is the apocalypse. Chris Carpenter held the &#8220;can&#8217;t miss&#8221; Ashburns to just three hits, and the upstart Cardinals went on to take the NLDS three games to two in a sparkling 1-0 win in Philadelphia, ending the Phillies post-season dream of another October World Series appearance. Phillies fans were so disappointed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Third Place Is No Great Shakes . . .&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/florida-marlins/third-place-is-no-great-shakes</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida Marlins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Agents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jayson Werth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Strasburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Clippard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Davey Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drew Storen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordan Zimmermann]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think that if anyone knows the history of the Washington Nationals, it must be Davey Johnson. And yet, immediately after the Nationals clinched a 3-1 last game victory against the Marlins, Johnson told the press that finishing third was not his idea of a great season. He&#8217;s right of course, but for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No Doubt About It . . .&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/atlanta-braves/no-doubt-about-it</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chien-Ming Wang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Espinosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Desmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Rodriguez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of Chien-Ming Wang&#8217;s steady and powerful outing against the Atlanta Braves on Saturday, Davey Johnson faced the Washington baseball press. In light of Wang&#8217;s performance against the Braves, he was asked, would he recommend that the righty be offered a contract for 2012? Johnson didn&#8217;t hesitate: &#8220;No doubt about it,&#8221; he said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back-To-Back Not Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laynce Nix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livan Hernandez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks&#8217; pitcher Daniel Hudson is the one who got away: back at the trade deadline in 2010, it was Hudson (then with the White Sox),who was dangled before Mike Rizzo in exchange for Adam Dunn, but the Nationals&#8217; G.M. took a pass. Hudson ended up in Arizona, where he&#8217;s blossomed into a top flight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ways To Fix The Cubs</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/chicago-cubs/three-ways-to-fix-the-cubs</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jayson Werth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Draft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cubs dismissed G.M. Jim Hendry on Friday &#8212; who was tearful and blubbery in his departure (&#8220;whaddayou, Jim, some kinda Hollywood finocchio . . .?). But the firing wasn&#8217;t exactly a surprise. The Cubs are going nowhere, and a lot of that has to do with the contract decisions that Hendry inked: $136 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flores, Gomes Lead Nats Against Reds</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/cincinnati-reds/flores-gomes-lead-nats-against-reds</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Flores homered and Jonny Gomes drove in two runs with a clutch single to left to lead the Washington Nationals over the Cincinnati Reds, 3-1 at Nationals Park on Thursday. The Flores homer was his first since May of 2009, while the Gomes hit came against his former team. &#8220;Against the Reds or not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats Sign Rice&#8217;s &#8220;All Everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/washington-nationals/nats-sign-rices-all-everything</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike Rizzo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March of this year, a blog promoting Dick Allen for the Hall of Fame picked Anthony Rendon as the top pick in the draft &#8212; and the top pick for the (ah) Pittsburgh Pirates. &#8220;Rice&#8217;s All Everything 3B Anthony Rendon is expected by almost everyone to be the #1 overall pick by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubs Down Nats, Detwiler 4-2</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/chicago-cubs/cubs-down-nats-dewiler-4-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word around the Nationals&#8217; clubhouse is that Jayson Werth, struggling through a season-long slump, is finally starting to hit. The Nationals&#8217; everyday right fielder &#8212; and headline off-season free agent acquistion &#8212; is hitting .306 in his last thirteen games. Indeed, Werth showed some pop at the plate on Wednesday night, sending a typical [...]]]></description>
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