Article: Hoyt puts life back on track // Padres pitcher finds self after rehabilitation

Perhaps it would have been different if the White Sox hadn't traded LaMarr Hoyt.

Perhaps the separation from his wife, two arrests and admission into a substance abuse center never would have happened.

"I think I would have liked to have stayed (with the Sox) as far as everything that's happened," Hoyt said. "I was pretty stable here."

Perhaps.

Perhaps the latest traumas are more splotches of paint on an abstract portrait that began to take form when Hoyt was 6 months old.

At that point Hoyt's parents separated and Hoyt's mother "kidnapped" Hoyt and took him to Santa Barbera, Calif., from Columbia, S.C. When Hoyt's father tracked down Hoyt's mother in California and searched ...

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