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Pitcher Justin Verlander, of the Detroit Tigers

The 2012 Major League Baseball season is off and running, and we want your predictions on respective division winners.

Today, we want your pick on which team is going to win the American League central division

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After Seattle and Oakland began the 2012 season with a split of a two-game series in Japan last week, Major League Baseball is ready for all of its teams to begin play this week. Opening Day for the 2012 season is Wednesday, when the world champion St. Louis Cardinals face the new look and newly-named Miami Marlins in the inaugural game at Marlins Park in Miami. Here’s this week’s MLB report:

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New York Yankees' outfielder Curtis Granderson

The American League East is annually regarded as the toughest division in all of Major League Baseball.

Last season, the Yankees won 97 games to lead the division, but the Rays also qualified for the playoffs, with 91 wins, and the Red Sox just missed, with 90 wins

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Magic's group wins the bidding war.

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New York Yankees' right-hander Joba Chamberlain was hoping to come back this season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in June.

Now he faces another battle.

Chamberlain underwent surgery la

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Chipper Jones is one of those rare guys in baseball.

Jones was the first pick taken in the 1990 draft by the Atlanta Braves.  And, he's been a member of the Braves ever since.

No team jumping

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For the first time, a Major League Baseball player has successfully challenged the results of a drug test.

Ryan Braun, the National League's Most Valuable Player, was cleared by an arbitrator yesterday after he tested positive for a banned substance last fall.

The results of the test were revealed about the time Braun was named the MVP.

Braun maintained his innocence

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Congratulations goes out to former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin for being elected into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday, but the Major League Baseball Writers' Association of America left somebody out that deserved to get it, but didn't, former Houston Astros first-baseman Jeff Bagwell.

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This year’s class of Hall of Fame inductees was announced on Monday, and just one man, Barry Larkin, made the cut.

The former Cincinnati Reds shortstop will be enshrined this summer and heralded among the all-time greats. But with the news a new member of the hall has been added comes a spirited debate about who didn’t make the cut.

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There was much consternation in St. Louis last week after Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols made his way toward a glittering paycheck with the Los Angeles Angels that will pay him more than $250 million over the course of 10 years. While most residents of the angered city saw an opportunity to set fire to pricey MLB clothing, one church saw an opportunity to turn a negative into a positive.

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