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The 2001 Seattle Mariners & The Team Most Similar to it - Part iii
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The Risks and Rewards of the Baseball Rental
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All-time Yankees-Astros team composed of players who played for both franchises – New York Daily News
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García powers Rangers to first World Series since 2011 with 11-4 rout of Astros in Game 7 of ALCS
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Randy Johnson, Baseball Wiki
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The most influential sports figures in Houston over the past 50 years
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Luis Castillo threatens to join list of aces Yankees let slip away
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Remembering 1998 Yankees' trade deadline pursuit of Randy Johnson - Pinstripe Alley
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WHAT IF: no Verlander trade/no Randy Johnson trade. - The Crawfish Boxes
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Randy Johnson Gallery
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All-time Yankees-Astros team composed of players who played for both franchises – New York Daily News
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Though he'll enter Hall of Fame as a D-Back, Randy Johnson cherishes time with Mariners
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August 28, 1998: Big Unit fans 16 in third straight shutout in the Dome – Society for American Baseball Research