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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- While the Yankees and Red Sox try to buy another World Series trophy, familiar practices are also at work in the sunny, popular division where the 2010 World Series trophy resides.The National League West is still defined by its pitching and the arms-and-glove race it inspires, said the man whose pitchers delivered the World Series trophy to San Francisco just a month ago.
Surveying recent personnel moves within the West, Giants manager Bruce Bochy sees improved pitching staffs in Phoenix and Los Angeles and reasons to believe San Diego again will turn foes' bats into balsa sticks.
"What we're seeing this offseason in our division is what we've seen in the last few years," Bochy said from the Winter Meetings. "And that's trying to improve our pitching, both our bullpens and starting rotations. And our defense."
The renovations amount to attempting to keep up with not the Joneses, but the Lincecums, Jimenezes, Cains, Wilsons, Kershaws, Bells and Latoses.
"You've got to pitch, and catch the ball," said Padres manager Bud Black, a former pitcher and pitching coach.
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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/09/different-arms-race-simmers-in-nl-west/
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