What the Eck?
When I started writing that last sprawling piece about John Hiller and the modern reliever, I fully expected Dennis Eckersley to play a major role in it. The story has long been told that it was Tony La Russa's managing -- and an aging Eckersley's remarkable ability to pitch one clean inning at the end of games -- that sparked the whole revolution of on…
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