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Postseason provides new opportunities.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 30-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Postseason provides new opportunities.(Sports)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Barry Rozner

CINCINNATI - There's no denying that some players love to play in the postseason.

Others, not so much.

For some stars, it's a bitter struggle, and for relative unknowns, it can make a career.

Alfonso Soriano, for example, was seen as such a liability - both offensively and defensively - because of his postseason play in New York, that the Yankees traded him to Texas.

And his .233 lifetime playoff average - with 45 strikeouts in 146 at-bats and 7 extra basehits in 38 games - has followed him wherever he has gone.

But now that he's the $136 million man in Chicago, paid a king's ransom to lead the Cubs to the Promised Land, he's going to be under even more pressure to perform.

"You know, (Barry) Bonds was criticized a lot for his postseason record before he got hot one year," Cubs...

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