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Article: YOUNGER GARCIAPARRA MAKES HIS OWN COMEBACK MICHAEL BOUNCED BACK BY NOT TRYING TO BE LIKE NOMAR.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 8, 2007
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Byline: DAVID ANDRIESEN P-I reporter
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Nomar Garciaparra might have been baseball's comeback player of the year last season, but his little brother has become a nice comeback story himself.
This time three years ago, it was not a lot of fun being Michael Garciaparra. The shortstop was coming off his first full-length season in the minor leagues, and it was a miserable one. Fifty errors, among the most in all of professional baseball. An anemic season at the plate: .248 average, two home runs, an OPS (on-base plus slugging) of just .603.
Some had already declared Garciaparra a bust, a scrawny guy with no track record on whom ...
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