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CROUCHING TIGER

Major League Baseball free
agent pitcher Tyler Clippard
delivers to a East Japan Rail-
way Company Tuesday, Feb.
27, 2018, in Bradenton, Fla.
Associated Press
Sign me: Free

agents play

Japanese

Amateurs

in exhibition

By RONALD BLUM
AP Baseball Writer
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP)
— Tyler Clippard wore a
black jersey with a white
players' union logo and
pitched hitless ball for two
innings against amateurs in
the green shirts of the East
Japan Railway Company.
He had the poorest per-
sonal results of his nine
major league seasons, yet
ended the year with a cel-
ebration in the clubhouse
of the World Series cham-
pion Houston Astros. This
is not how the 33-year-old
right-hander envisioned
spring training.
“We know that my year last
year was a bad year, but
at the end of the day how
bad was it? And it wasn’t Tiger Woods' game makes a big leap
as bad as some that got
significant contracts,” he
said Tuesday after appear-
ing in the first of two exhibi-
tion games for free agents
scheduled for this week at
the IMG Academy.
Thirty-eight players have
attended the camp since
workouts started Feb. 14. Tiger Woods lines up a putt on the fourth hole during the final round of the Honda Classic golf tournament, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018,
in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
Associated Press
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