* Rays finish 4th in AL East
* Tsuyoshi Nishioka becomes the next Kaz Matsui and Twins are forced to play Alexi Casilla and Trevor Plouffe up the middle for the stretch run
* Brad Penny makes 30 starts
* Bartolo Colon lasts 2 starts w/ the Yankees before going 0-2 and being DFA'ed
* bounce back years for Carlos Quentin, Aaron Hill and Josh Beckett
* no bounce back years for AJ Burnett, Jonathan Papelbon, Ben Zobrist, or Grady Sizemore
* Carlos Santana becomes an absolute star in Cleveland
* Guys who get traded by deadline: Fausto Carmona and Joakim Soria
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