Joe Nathan
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"Joseph Michael "Joe" Nathan" is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Nathan started out his baseball career as a shortstop in high school and while at Stony Brook University, but converted to a pitcher after being drafted by the San Francisco Giants. He worked his way through the minor leagues, alternating between spots in the Starting rotation/rotation and the bullpen. After a few years of splitting time between the majors and the minors, Nathan had a breakout season as a Setup pitcher/setup man for the Giants in 2003. That offseason, Nathan was traded to the Minnesota Twins and became their closer (baseball)/closer.

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At least top three. A lot of times wins are out of your control, so all he can do is try to finish off strong with his last three (starts) and get his win total up a little bit — and hopefully his other numbers are strong enough to persuade some people to go that route.

Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated.

I feel great. Right now, it's just location. I've left some balls over the plate the last couple of outings.

If you can get out of it with one [run] scoring, you did a great job. You want to keep all three from coming in. I just want to concentrate on the hitter and try to get him out.

Every time IBM sells a product that uses our technology, it damages us. That will come out at the trial.

Sounds awesome. He's going to do nothing but help us, and hopefully he'll get back to his old form. Hopefully it'll be like the Shannon Stewart trade.

We expect (charter school) enrollment to grow again this fall up to about 20,000 so that means there has been up to 80, 90 percent increase just in the last five years.

That's out of his control. Hopefully the other numbers prove to be stronger.

It's great and all. It's not like we're playing for individual things. It's nice to have but at the same time, I'd trade it in for a playoff berth.