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Barry Syvluga wrote a great article in the Washington Post today about last nights two starters, Tim Redding and Johan Santana, and their two very different paths to how they got to where they are today.

Excerpt:
"In 1998, a young right-hander from Rochester, N.Y., began his first professional baseball season just east of his home town, in Auburn, the Houston Astros' affiliate in the New York-Penn League. Name of Tim Redding. On the same starting staff was a left-hander from Venezuela, just 20 by the time he got there at the end of the year, Johan Santana. The two were teammates again the following spring at Michigan, Class A ball, hard-throwers with high hopes."

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