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Breaking down the AL wild-card field, slumping Astros included

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Breaking down the AL wild-card field, slumping Astros included

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  • Buster Olney, Senior Writer, ESPN Insider Close
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    • Author of "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty"
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Very late in the 2006 season -- it might've even been the final weekend -- I bumped into a couple of scouts at an airport, at a time when the evaluators were in the midst of preparation for the postseason, and picked their brains about what they had seen.