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Godspeed, @BMcCarthy32

by Rob Neyer
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Athletics’ McCarthy Released From Hospital Following Brain Surgery
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When I read the disturbing news about Brandon McCarthy, I couldn’t help flashing back to our interview last March, at the SABR Analytics Conference ...

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↵I’d never met McCarthy, and I was completely taken with his intelligence, his candidness, his humility. So I’ve been rooting for him ever since.

↵But never more so than now.

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