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![Starting pitcher Zack Greinke #23 of the Kansas City Royals pitches just prior to the start of the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 17, 2009 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. Greinke was named as the 2009 American League Cy Young Award winner. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215211106im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00484/Greinke13_484470gm-c.jpg)
Greinke gets an early start
Kansas City Cy Young winner, closer Joakim Soria and first baseman Billy Butler report to training camp in Surprise, Ariz.
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A tip of the cap to Dawson
Any baseball fan worth his salt will always associate The Hawk with the Expos
![Roberto Alomar during his time with the Cleveland Indians in 1999.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215211106im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00456/alomar_456344gm-c.jpg)
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Alomar left Toronto for business reasons
Perennial all-star would have preferred to finish his career with the Blue Jays
Granderson fine with possible switch to left field
Former Detroit Tigers All-Star centre fielder is 'excited to get back and start the 2010 season'
Richmond hurts shoulder preparing for spring training
Jays pitcher is suffering from right shoulder impingement and will need rehab
BJ Upton loses to Rays in arbitration
Club defeats outfielder, leaving the Rays 5-0 in cases that have gone to hearings
Giants, Lincecum reach deal
Two-time reigning NL Cy Young Award winner avoids arbitration hearing and settles on $23M, 2-year contract agreement
Frank Thomas announces retirement
Two-time MVP calls it quits
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Tigers' Cabrera says he's turned life around
Detroit slugger spent the off-season in a treatment program for alcoholism
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Jeff Blair
Time for the National League to adopt the DH
The genie is out of the bottle, and rather than talking about abolishing the designated hitter rule, both leagues should embrace it instead
![Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter Adam Lind.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215211106im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00435/lind_jays_435221gm-d.jpg)
Cooperstown hits a single
Former Expo Dawson alone in his class as former Blue Jay Alomar falls a few votes shy in first Hall of Fame at-bat
![Andre Dawson talks to a reporter after a practice in this March 7, 1987 photo. Former Montreal Expo Dawson has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100215211106im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00420/dawson_expos_420841gm-d.jpg)