MVP Tejada comes through as predicted

Olney: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/buster-olney/post/_/id/1681?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Miggy eyes another Triple Crown
Cameron: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9285747/kyle-kendrick-tops-players-whove-reinvented-2013-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Top early-season turnarounds
Petriello: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9287861/texas-rangers-showing-making-offseason-moves-was-way-go-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Quiet winter doesn't slow Texas
Spratt: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9286429/arizona-diamondbacks-paul-goldschmidt-setting-mvp-pace-mlb?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Goldschmidt setting MVP pace
Law: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9277478/houston-astros-do-not-take-mark-appel-first-mock-draft-2013-mlb-draft?addata=2009_insdr_mod_mlb_xxx_xxx">Appel not No. 1 in mock draft

Originally Published: July 12, 2005

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DETROIT -- In separate interviews before Tuesday night's All-Star Game, Baltimore second baseman Brian Roberts and closer B.J. Ryan both predicted that their teammate, Miguel Tejada, was destined to stand apart from the crowd. They refrained from anointing him as the Most Valuable Player-in-waiting. But just barely.

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