To test the idea on a grand scale, researchers at Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute acquired the signal strengths from 2, 400 links operated by T-Mobile NL, over two 12-day periods in 2011.
Richard was troubled by the longball last year, giving up an NL-high 31 in 33 starts and this was a discouraging first start to 2013.
The prolific lineup that produced an NL-best 776 runs returns largely intact, with speed in Carlos Gomez and Norichika Aoki and power in Corey Hart and Aramis Ramirez.
They kept the heat on the NL East-winning Washington Nationals until the end.
A. Dickey was traded to Toronto for prospects, and not much is expected this year other than a fifth straight losing season and another fourth-place finish in the top-heavy NL East.
The No. 1 overall draft pick in 2009 and NL All-Star in 2012 wound up dropping his fifth consecutive decision of 2013, slumping his shoulders and bowing his head while laboring through a 42-pitch fifth inning during an 8-2 loss to the Cubs.
Dealt to Toronto after going 20-3 and winning the NL Cy Young Award, Dickey (2-4) already has lost more games this year than in all of 2012.
Kemp, who just two seasons ago finished runner-up to Milwaukee's Ryan Braun in the NL MVP voting after hitting a career-high 39 home runs with 126 RBIs and a .324 average, is batting .251 this season with two homers and 17 RBIs in 51 games, and has struck out 60 times in 191 at-bats following offseason shoulder surgery.
An evidentiary hearing on Braun's appeal was held Jan. 19-20 in New York, ending the day before the player accepted the NL MVP award at a black-tie dinner.
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While the Yankees have had a makeshift lineup all season due to injuries, the Rockies were without star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, the NL's second-leading hitter who was held out with lingering soreness in his left leg.
He inherits a club coming off a franchise-worst 64-98 season and a last-place finish in the NL West.
The Cardinals had earlier clinched at least a tie for the NL wild card spot with an 8-0 pounding of the Astros in Houston.
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They also made several changes in the wake of NL MVP Ryan Braun having his 50-game suspension overturned based on the chain-of-custody being broken with this collected urine sample.
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Washington Nationals ace Gio Gonzalez was considered one of the favorites for the 2012 NL Cy Young award, and 39-year-old Bartolo Colon had a renaissance season last year, posting his best numbers since 2005.
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On Tuesday at home against the Chicago White Sox, the Mets hope to get another boost from rookie starter Matt Harvey, the NL pitcher of the month who went 4-0 with a 1.56 ERA and a .156 opponents' batting average in six April starts.
And playing a large percentage of games each season against weaker foes from the NL Central only empowers Albert to continue his fast-track towards various historic performance milestones.
After Tuesday night's 6-2 Loss to the Washington Nationals, they are 4-1, no longer unbeaten but still atop the NL East.
The NL hang on to beat the AL by a score of 3-2 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
Or the 1984 New York Mets, who shot up to 90-72 from 68-94 in 1983, rising to second place from sixth in the NL East standings.
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By winning 16 more games than any other NL team, in a year in which no team in the league broke the 100-loss barrier, the Reds stood above the pack by a greater margin than any club in history.
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