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2005 rookies: future stars in the making include third basemen Garrett Atkins of the Rockies and Dallas McPherson of the Angels.(Prospects)(baseball)
IT'S NO SECRET THAT THE PATHS OF glory and riches are less thorny for some rookies than for others, though it's equally true that nobody can promise even the most talented among them a rose garden.
A handful of lucky top prospects each year are virtually handed jobs--to lose, as the cliche goes--vacated by veterans through trades, free agency, retirement or dismissal. Other rookies, equally accomplished but less fortunate, confront a fierce struggle to secure even a toehold on a big league job.
Any number of examples from among the hundreds of hopefuls in 2005 would serve to illustrate this major difference between one youngster's chance to make good as ...
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