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Cousins

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Was reading Jayson Stark’s piece on Ryan Zimmerman being the first major leaguer in years (since Pete In-a-gadda-da-vida Incaviglia) to become a regular starter the season after he was drafted. (Well, barring injury, of course.) Which made me think of John Olerud, and how until he played for the PawSox last year he’d never played in the minors. So I looked him up, and found that Olerud is Dale Sveum’s cousin. Hmm. Random trivia I never knew.