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GOING BACK THROUGH THE PRE-season rosters of each of the 30 major league clubs, you could find a number of young pitchers touted as the teams' top prospects, such as Edwin Jackson of the Dodgers, or those who were being primed to step in as staff aces, like Johan Santana of the Twins, or those who were established but not yet the majors' most feared starters, like Mark Prior of the Cubs.
What we saw at the start of the 2004 season was the potential for a breakout of young pitching dominance. But what we witnessed through the first three-quarters of the season was a mixture of the young and old hurlers compiling the list of the majors' top ten starters.
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