Tim Marchman likes the Ivan Rodriguez addition

• Tim Marchman thinks Ivan Rodriguez is someone worth seeing.

"There are some things in baseball that you can't appreciate until you've seen them up close, some of them the sorts of things you know you'll tell your grandchildren about.

• Once you've seen the speed and violence of the break on Mariano Rivera's cutter or the level force of Albert Pujols's swing from field level, you get a visceral sense for just how hard baseball is that nothing else can give you.

• Watching Ivan Rodriguez warm up his arm before a game, literally snapping off fastballs in the eighties flat-footed, is one of those things.

As much as Rivera, Pujols, Greg Maddux, or Alex Rodriguez, Pudge is an outright freak. And even nearer the end than the beginning of his career, it's always a privilege to watch him play."...

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