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1. In his ESPN blog on Monday, Buster Olney detailed some of the reasons the Rockies have reversed course and have an 11-game winning streak. Olney focused heavily on Aaron Cook and how the righty went from having lost his signature sinker to doing video work that enabled Cook to rediscover the pitch. I point this out because Chien-Ming Wang, like Cook, depends so thoroughly on a sinker to get groundballs. You could argue that no two starters in the majors so thoroughly rely on sinkers and grounders more than Cook and Wang.

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