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GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Cubs right-hander Ben Brown has thought through the hypothetical of, what if he could go back to last year, when a “benign area of concern” on his neck – essentially a non-cancerous growth – wiped out more than half of his season.
“I don’t even know if I would do anything different,” he said last week. “I’d still want to pitch until I couldn’t pitch anymore. And I’d still try to come back all year, hoping I was going to come back.