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I don't get that sense at all from the players.

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Having spent a good chunk of last week in Bradenton, Florida, among the many things I tried to gauge from countless conversations

with players and others was their thoughts on the state of the team. And I know that sounds like

the most boring possible thing you can bring up, but you'd be surprised at the variety of answers, the variety of very real sentiments

that can come from that.

And I'm going to give you three general, not universal, general consensus sentiments that I picked up from

these guys.

Number one, and I do mean number one, is that they're so

confident, so supremely confident in this starting rotation that they feel the sky's the limit,

that they feel they're going to be able to surprise probably pretty much everybody. A few of them spoke with me about the way

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