• Hechavarria and Solano both have career minor-league on-base percentages of .314, while Brantly's is .336.

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  • If you're wondering about Loria's analysis: Hechavarria, Solano and Brantly have combined for 4, 959 minor-league at-bats.

    WSJ: Rodman's Next Stunt: North Korean Diplomacy

  • Issuers would achieve this stability through loan extension and expiration operations (the major, long-term method) or currency trading (the minor, day-to-day method).

    FORBES: Private Currency Competition Is The Monetary Answer

  • Of course the rosters are updated and the new stadiums are ready for action, but any other differences are minor -- and cosmetic -- at best.

    CNN: 'Triple Play Baseball' hits line drive on PlayStation

  • About one second into "Serpentine, " it's clear that Chris Bathgate knows his way around pretty, minor-key indie-folk: The mournful piano line which opens the song makes that instantaneously clear.

    NPR: Melancholy Gloom, Beautiful and Bruised

  • What started out as a gimmick to entertain fans during breaks in the action has become an ultra-important component for major- and minor-league sports teams looking to market at the grass roots by nabbing new fans at increasingly earlier ages.

    FORBES: America's Top Sports Mascots

  • So Kitamura encouraged Bell to redesign his bagels--a minor craze in Japan--folding the sweet ingredients into the dough. (A pure New Yorker will not tolerate even minor adulterations, like raisins.) They're flying off shelves in Tokyo and Osaka.

    FORBES: Doughboy

  • Brandon Belt, a first baseman for the San Francisco Giants, says he relished his stint in San Jose in 2010, even though the low rungs of minor-league baseball meant seven-hour bus rides to games and balky clubhouse air-conditioning in the summer.

    WSJ: San Jose Giants Caught in MLB Dispute

  • Two nearly back-to-back explosions in Cartagena -- which caused only minor damage and no casualties, Colombia National Police spokesman Cantihho Toncell said -- were a reminder of the violence that has gripped Colombia as its government has battled powerful drug cartels.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • "Walk-in centres do not address access inequalities, attracting largely white middle-class patients with minor and self-limiting complaints, " they said.

    BBC: Ricky Tomlinson as Jim Royle in the Royle Family

  • But nurses working for NHS Direct Wales also deal with non life-threatening Category C calls to the ambulance service - such as minor injuries or colds and flu symptoms - which ambulances have a target to reach within 30 minutes.

    BBC: NHS Direct Wales 'turned off' for 999 calls, Unison claims

  • Facilities include 30 in-patient beds, a midwifery-led maternity unit, a minor injury unit and X-ray and space for mobile scanners.

    BBC: Bridgwater Community Hospital, built in 1813

  • Mazzotti and other federation officials combed the rosters of U.S. major and minor-league teams in search of Spanish-sounding last names, though finding players with Spanish roots was much more difficult.

    WSJ: World Baseball Classic��What Spain Lacks: Spaniards

  • He said the diocesan college he attended in the United States -- a type of minor seminary -- was designed to prepare students for their commitments at major seminaries if they decided to continue their studies.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The 38-year-old suffered minor stab wounds and stayed in hospital overnight, while the 39-year-old was struck on the head.

    BBC: Police on the scene of a fight in Luton

  • In April inspectors identified major concerns in two areas - patient care and staffing - and minor concerns in four others, including lack of equipment, staff training and record-keeping.

    BBC: Queen's Hospital in Romford

  • Until recently, the country - which is a minor oil producer - was unable to export oil from its existing fields in the north and east of the country because of a Western embargo.

    BBC: Tamar natural gas platform, 2013

  • At large trade shows like CES, we're accustomed to seeing tried and true products receive refreshes -- sometimes major, sometimes minor -- year after year.

    ENGADGET: Puzzlebox Orbit mind-on: brainwaves and hack-friendly helicopters (video)

  • Lecturers could also lecture from wherever they are (home, office, classroom), and we can invite the best lecturers for a variety of topics without having to fly them across the globe - not a minor detail in a carbon-conscious world.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • It staged a 2011 flash mob that included a funky-chicken dance at a minor-league baseball game in Visalia, Calif.

    WSJ: Spontaneity for Hire: Flash Mobs Go Corporate

  • Former President Thabo Mbeki - currently enjoying a minor revival - certainly believed in the value of political rhetoric.

    BBC: Which African leaders can make good speeches?

  • Since 2004, the data of everyone arrested for a recordable offence - all but the most minor offences - has remained on the system regardless of their age, the seriousness of their alleged offence, and whether or not they were prosecuted.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Since 2004, the data of everyone arrested for a recordable offence in England and Wales - all but the most minor offences - has remained on the system regardless of their age, the seriousness of their alleged offence, and whether or not they were prosecuted.

    BBC: All DNA is stored permanently on the national database

  • The wetland, which includes the coastal Unryul Migratory Birds Reserve, play an important conservation role as habitats for shore birds and critical areas for many migratory bird species of north-east Asia such as black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes) and red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis).

    UNESCO: Natural Sciences

  • So I expect that the minor changes - on daily allowances, for example - will happen by order, but no bill will be introduced for a second stage of reform for a while.

    BBC: What a missed opportunity

  • It's better than the alternative of scrambling for free-agent or minor-league replacements, said manager Joe Girardi.

    WSJ: Pineda Done Before Starting

  • The team prohibits beards for its minor-leaguers but relaxes the rule at the major-league level.

    WSJ: The New York Lumberjacks: Mets Definitely Don't Have a Facial Hair Ban

  • The Sonata in D-Minor by Giuseppe Sammartini has been a long-time favorite with recorder players despite some odd stylistic features.

    NPR: Live in Studio 4A: Parnassus Avenue Baroque

  • First baseman Mark Teixeira and third baseman Kevin Youkilis are likely to be activated for Friday's series opener against Boston following two-day minor league injury rehabilitation assignments at Double-A Trenton.

    WSJ: Yanks plan to activate Pettitte on Monday

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