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Baseball Digest's all-star comeback team for 2002 season: some top performances by players returning to action after sub-par or injury-plagued seasons are those of Jose Rijo, John Smoltz, Nomar Garciaparra, Mike Lieberthal and Pedro Martinez. (Baseball Digest's).
NO COMEBACK BY A PLAYER IN 2002 came close to matching that of pitcher Jose Rijo for dramatic impact, heart-warming sentiment, and inherent improbability though it was hardly, the most significant of such recoveries to usual form and productivity.
When Cincinnati Reds right-hander Rijo defeated the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on April 22 this past season, it smacked more of fiction than of hard, incontestable reality.
"To be 37 (on May 13), out of the game seven years, and come out here and beat Sammy Sosa and Fred McGriff (Cubs sluggers) is amazing," exulted Rijo, onetime ace ot the Reds and the 1990 World Series MVP who had undergone five elbow ...
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