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Topic Overview
What is leukemia?
Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. It starts in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside most bones. Bone marrow is where blood cells are made.
- White blood cells help your body fight infection.
- Red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of your body.
- Platelets help your blood clot.
When you have leukemia, the bone marrow starts to make a lot of abnormal white blood cells, called leukemia cells. They don't do the work of normal white blood cells. They grow faster than normal cells, and they don't stop growing when they should.
Over time, leukemia cells can crowd out the normal blood cells. This can lead to serious problems such as anemia , bleeding, and infections. Leukemia cells can also spread to the lymph nodes or other organs and cause swelling or pain.
Are there different types of leukemia?
There are several different types of leukemia. In general, leukemia is grouped by how fast it gets worse and what kind of white blood cell it affects.
- It may be acute or chronic. Acute leukemia gets worse very fast and may make you feel sick right away. Chronic leukemia gets worse slowly and may not cause symptoms for years.
- It may be lymphocytic or myelogenous. Lymphocytic (or lymphoblastic) leukemia affects white blood cells called lymphocytes. Myelogenous leukemia affects white blood cells called myelocytes.
The four main types of leukemia are:
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL .
- Acute myelogenous leukemia, or AML .
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL .
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML .
There are less common leukemias, such as hairy cell leukemia . There are also subtypes of leukemia, such as acute promyelocytic leukemia (a subtype of AML).
What causes leukemia?
Experts don't know what causes leukemia. Some things may increase your risk, such as being exposed to large amounts of radiation and being exposed to certain chemicals at work, such as benzene.
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms may depend on what type of leukemia you have, but common symptoms include:
- Fever and night sweats.
- Headaches.
- Bruising or bleeding easily.
- Bone or joint pain.
- A swollen or painful belly from an enlarged spleen .
- Swollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck, or groin.
- Getting a lot of infections.
- Feeling very tired or weak.
- Losing weight and not feeling hungry.
How is leukemia diagnosed?
To find out if you have leukemia, a doctor will:
- Ask questions about your past health and symptoms.
- Do a physical exam. The doctor will look for swollen lymph nodes and check to see if your spleen or liver is enlarged.
- Order blood tests. Leukemia causes a high level of white blood cells and low levels of other types of blood cells.
If your blood tests aren't normal, the doctor may want to do a bone marrow biopsy . This test lets the doctor look at cells from inside your bone. This can give key information about what type of leukemia it is so you can get the right treatment.
How is it treated?
What type of treatment you need will depend on many things, including what kind of leukemia you have, how far along it is, and your age and overall health.
- If you have acute leukemia, you will need quick treatment to stop the rapid growth of leukemia cells.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia may not need to be treated until you have symptoms. But chronic myelogenous leukemia will probably be treated right away.
Treatments for leukemia include:
- Chemotherapy . This is the main treatment for most types of leukemia.
- Radiation .
- Stem cell transplant . Stem cells can rebuild your supply of normal blood cells and boost your immune system.
- Biological therapy . This is the use of special medicines that improve your body's natural defenses against cancer.
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Experts don't know what causes leukemia. But some things can increase the risk of some kinds of leukemia. To learn more, see What Increases Your Risk.
Symptoms of acute leukemia depend on how much the cancer has grown. They may include:
- Fevers and night sweats.
- Frequent or unusual infections.
- Weakness and fatigue.
- Headaches.
- Bruising of the skin and bleeding from the gums or rectum.
- Bone pain.
- Joint pain.
- Swelling in the belly or pain on the left side of the belly or in the left shoulder from a swollen spleen .
- Swollen lymph nodes in the armpit, neck, or groin.
- Decreased appetite and weight loss because you feel full and don't want to eat.
The chronic forms of leukemia often cause no symptoms until much later in the disease.
What Happens
Your bone marrow is where stem cells grow. These stem cells become white blood cells , red blood cells , and platelets .
In most cases of leukemia, there are too many abnormal white blood cells. These leukemia cells crowd out the normal blood cells in your bone marrow and build up in your lymph nodes, liver, and spleen.
When the leukemia cells crowd out your normal cells, your blood can't do its job. You may bleed or bruise easily, have more infections, and feel very tired.
Survival rates
Survival rates are different for each kind of leukemia. A 5-year survival rate is the percentage of people who are still alive 5 years or more after being diagnosed. These numbers do not necessarily show what will happen in your case. The following are estimated 5-year survival rates: 1
In this type of leukemia | This many people survive at least 5 years |
66 out of 100 adults and 89 out of 100 children |
23 out of 100 people |
79 out of 100 people |
53 out of 100 people |
These numbers come from reports that were done at least 5 years ago, before newer treatments were available. So chances of survival today are likely to be higher than these numbers.
Leukemia can go away. People sometimes call this a "cure." But your doctor may use the term "remission" instead of "cure" when talking about the effectiveness of your treatment. Many people who have leukemia are successfully treated, but the term remission is used because cancer can return (recur). It is important to discuss the possibility of recurrence with your doctor.
What Increases Your Risk
Some things can increase your chances of getting leukemia. These things are called risk factors. But many people who get leukemia don't have any of these risk factors. And some people who have risk factors don't get this cancer. Risk factors include:
- Smoking or using other tobacco products. This risk factor is linked to some cases of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) . 2
- Exposure to high levels of radiation.
- Exposure to chemicals, such as benzene and formaldehyde. Sometimes people are exposed to these chemicals where they work.
- Chemotherapy or radiation used to treat a previous cancer.
- Conditions caused by abnormal chromosomes , such as Down syndrome .
- Infection with a type of HIV known as HTLV-1.
- Other blood diseases, such as myelodysplastic syndromes .
- Your family history. In some cases, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) runs in families.
When To Call a Doctor
Call your doctor to schedule an appointment if you have any symptoms, such as:
- A new lump or swollen gland in your neck, under your arm, or in your groin.
- Frequent nosebleeds, bleeding from the gums or rectum, more frequent bruising, or very heavy menstrual bleeding.
- Frequent fevers.
- Night sweats.
- Unexplained appetite loss or recent weight loss.
- Feeling tired a lot without a known reason.
- Swelling and pain on the left side of the belly.
Watchful waiting
Watchful waiting is a period when your doctor is checking you regularly but not treating you. It may be a treatment choice if you are an older adult, depending on the stage of the leukemia and your overall health.
Doctors may use watchful waiting for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) at first because treatment may not be needed. For example, it is estimated that 1 out of 3 people who have CLL never need treatment. 3 People who have CLL often live for a long time without treatment.
Watchful waiting isn't usually recommended for other types of leukemia.
During watchful waiting, you will:
- Have regular appointments with your doctor.
- Have regular medical tests, including scans and blood tests.
- Be told which symptoms to report to your doctor immediately.
Who to see
Health professionals who can evaluate symptoms of leukemia include the following:
The diagnosis of leukemia will be done by a medical oncologist , pediatric oncologist, or hematologist . These specialists also treat leukemia.
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
Exams and Tests
Tests to diagnose leukemia
If your doctor suspects leukemia, he or she may:
- Ask about your medical history.
- Check for enlarged lymph nodes in your neck, underarm, or groin.
- Check for an enlarged liver or spleen .
- Do a complete blood count (CBC) and a blood profile. These tests let your doctor look into symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, fever, bruising, or weight loss.
- Do a bone marrow aspiration and biopsy. This is the key to diagnosing most leukemias and helps determine the type.
Finding the type of leukemia
If your blood work points to possible leukemia, your doctor will want to find out what kind you might have. Your treatment plan will depend on the specific kind of leukemia that you have.
- A blood test is usually enough to find signs of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) .
- Tests that look closely at unusual cells,
, or proteins on cells can show what type
or subtype of leukemia you have. These tests include:
- A test that looks for certain changes in the cell chromosomes from a sample of blood or bone marrow (cytogenetic analysis).
- A test that compares cancer cells to normal blood cells to find the specific kind of leukemia (immunophenotyping).
- A test to look for genes that are "turned on" in several types of leukemia, such as acute promyelocytic leukemia . This test is called a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test, or RT-PCR.
These tests can help guide treatment. Sometimes they can help your doctor and you know whether your leukemia is likely to go into remission or come back. In some cases, the tests can predict survival rates.
Your doctor may also order other tests, including:
- Chest X-rays, to find out if leukemia or an infection is the cause of lung problems such as persistent coughing, coughing up blood, chest pain, or trouble breathing.
- CT scan of the head, chest, and belly, to find out if leukemia has spread there.
- Lumbar puncture, to find out if leukemia cells are in your cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) .
- MRI of the brain, to look into symptoms such as confusion, paralysis, numbness, vision problems, vertigo, or headaches. Those symptoms could mean that leukemia has spread to the brain.
- A biopsy of a lymph node or other tissues, to look for leukemia cells.
Treatment Overview
The goal of treatment for leukemia is to destroy the leukemia cells and allow normal cells to form in your bone marrow. Treatment decisions are based on the kind of leukemia you have, its stage , and your age and general health.
Treatment for acute leukemia
is the usual treatment for acute
leukemia. For most people, that means receiving drugs
in stages:
- Induction kills leukemia cells in the blood and bone marrow to induce remission .
- Consolidation kills any leukemia cells that may be present even though they don't show up in tests. If these cells regrow, they could cause a relapse .
- Maintenance also prevents any remaining leukemia cells from growing. This may be done using lower doses of chemotherapy than those used during induction or consolidation. This is only used in people with ALL and a few rare forms of AML.
- Radiation therapy is usually given from a machine outside the body that directs radiation to the cancer (external radiation).
- Stem cell transplant may be part of the treatment plan for people who have high-risk acute leukemia. Most stem cell transplants for leukemia are allogeneic. This means that the stem cells are donated by someone else.
Stem cell transplants and chemotherapy are also used when leukemia comes back after you haven't had symptoms for a period of time.
To learn more about treatment of acute leukemia, see Medications and Other Treatment.
Additional information about acute leukemia is provided by the National Cancer Institute at www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/leukemia.
Treatment of chronic leukemia
For CLL
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) isn't always treated right away.
Treatment choices for CLL include:
- Watchful waiting . CLL usually gets worse very slowly, and you may have no symptoms for some time. You and your doctor may decide to hold off on treatment for a while. During this time, your doctor will watch you carefully.
- Radiation therapy.
- Chemotherapy .
- Surgery. Your spleen may need to be removed.
- Targeted therapy with a monoclonal antibody . These antibodies can kill cancer cells, stop their growth, or keep them from spreading.
When you have CLL, your body isn't able to fight infections very well. You and your doctor need to watch for any signs of infections, such as pneumonia or yeast infections. Early treatment of these and other infections will help you live longer. You can sometimes prevent certain infections or keep from getting very sick by getting a flu shot or a pneumonia vaccine. Your doctor also may give you antibiotics to prevent infection while you are being treated for leukemia.
For CML
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is treated right away. Treatment choices include:
- Targeted therapy with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. This is the first treatment used for CML.
- Chemotherapy .
- Biological therapy . This is the use of special medicines that improve your body's natural defenses against cancer.
- High-dose chemotherapy followed by a stem cell transplant.
- Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI). This is a treatment that may be used after a stem cell transplant. With DLI, you are given more of your donor's white blood cells (lymphocytes).
- Surgery. Your spleen may need to be removed.
Additional information about chronic leukemia is provided by the National Cancer Institute at www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/leukemia.
Clinical trials
Clinical trials play a very important part in the treatment of leukemia. Clinical trials test the latest drugs and other new treatments. They have made it possible for many people with leukemia to live longer. People who are in clinical trials get all the recommended treatments for their cancer and are closely watched.
Talk to your doctor about whether there is a clinical trial that might be good for you. For more information, see www.cancer.gov/clinical_trials/ or http://clinicaltrials.gov.
Leukemia in children
Treatments for children who have leukemia aren't the same as treatments for adults who have leukemia. After the leukemia has been treated, children may need to be monitored for treatment side effects that may appear months or years later.
Additional information about childhood leukemia is provided by the National Cancer Institute at www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/leukemia.
Supportive care
Cancer treatment has two main goals: curing cancer and making your quality of life as good as possible. Palliative care can improve your quality of life by helping you manage your symptoms. It also can help you with other concerns that you may have when you are living with a serious illness.
For some people who have advanced cancer, a time comes when treatment to cure cancer no longer seems like a good choice. This can be because the side effects, time, and costs of treatment are greater than the promise of cure or relief. But this isn't the end of treatment. You and your doctor can decide when you may be ready for hospice care .
It can be hard to decide when to stop treatment to prolong your life and shift the focus to end-of-life care. For more information, see:
There is no known way to prevent most types of leukemia.
Some types of leukemia may be prevented by avoiding high doses of radiation, exposure to the chemical benzene, smoking and other tobacco use, or certain types of chemotherapy used to treat other types of cancer.
Home Treatment
You can do things at home to help manage your side effects. If your doctor has given you instructions or medicines to treat these symptoms, be sure to follow them. In general, healthy habits such as eating a balanced diet and getting enough sleep and exercise may help control your symptoms.
- Home treatment for nausea or vomiting includes watching for and treating early signs of dehydration, such as a dry mouth or feeling lightheaded when you stand up. Eating smaller meals may help. A little bit of ginger candy or ginger tea can help too.
- Home treatment for diarrhea includes resting your stomach and being alert for signs of dehydration. Check with your doctor before you use any nonprescription medicines for your diarrhea.
- Home treatment for constipation includes gentle exercise along with drinking enough fluids and eating a diet that is high in fruits, vegetables, and fiber. Check with your doctor before you use a laxative for your constipation.
Other problems that can be treated at home include:
- Sleep problems. If you have trouble sleeping, going to bed at a regular time and getting exercise daily are some things that can help.
- Feeling very tired. If you lack energy or become weak easily, try to manage your energy and get extra rest.
- Hair loss. Tips include using a mild shampoo and a soft hairbrush.
- Pain. Home treatment can help you manage pain.
Handling the stress of having cancer
Having cancer can be very stressful. It may feel overwhelming to face the challenges in front of you. Finding new ways of coping with the symptoms of stress may improve your overall quality of life.
These ideas may help:
- Get the support you need. Spend time with people who care about you, and let them help you.
- Take good care of yourself. Get plenty of rest, and eat nourishing foods.
- Talk about your feelings. Find a support group where you can share your experience.
- Try new ways to relax. And do things each day that help you stay calm and relaxed. Stress reduction techniques may help.
Having cancer can change your life in many ways. For support in managing these changes, see the topic Getting Support When You Have Cancer.
Chemotherapy is the standard treatment for many types of leukemia. Even when a cure isn't possible, chemotherapy may help you live longer and feel better.
Chemotherapy for leukemia is usually a combination of drugs. This is because different drugs attack leukemia cells in different ways. The combination also helps keep the leukemia cells from becoming resistant to any one drug.
Along with the chemotherapy drugs, other medicines may be given to help the chemotherapy drugs work better and prevent infection or bleeding. These drugs include epoetin and hematopoietic stimulants.
Medication choices
For acute leukemia
Your treatment plan will include the kind of medicine that works best for the specific type or subtype of leukemia that you have.
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) medicines may include prednisone, methotrexate, l-asparaginase, vincristine, and doxorubicin or daunorubicin.
- Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) medicines may include daunorubicin with cytarabine. Idarubicin or mitoxantrone may be used instead of daunorubicin.
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) medicines may include all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) and chemotherapy with arsenic trioxide, idarubicin, or daunorubicin. ATRA also helps control the risk of life-threatening bleeding from disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) .
Some types of acute leukemia spread to the brain and spinal cord. Regular chemotherapy can't reach those areas, because your body puts up a special barrier to protect them. A different way of giving chemotherapy, called intrathecal chemotherapy, treats these areas by injecting the drugs directly into your spinal canal to attack any leukemia cells there.
For chronic leukemia
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) medicines may include cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone. Other choices may include fludarabine and chlorambucil. The monoclonal antibodies rituximab and alemtuzumab may also be used.
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
medicines include the chemotherapy medicines cyclophosphamide and cytarabine. Other medicines include tyrosine kinase inhibitors. These include imatinib, dasatinib, and nilotinib.
- People with CML who cannot have stem cell transplants and are unable to take tyrosine kinase inhibitors may be given interferon alfa (with or without cytarabine), hydroxyurea, or busulfan.
Medicines used for treatments for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are taken orally (by mouth) or given intravenously for limited periods of time. If there is relapse, medicines are given again.
For chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), medicine is usually taken by mouth for as long as needed.
Medicine for nausea and vomiting
Nausea and vomiting are common side effects of chemotherapy. They usually go away when treatment stops. Your doctor will prescribe medicines to help relieve nausea.
In rare cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) , the spleen needs to be removed. This happens when the spleen is destroying red blood cells and platelets. The operation is called a splenectomy.
Often a swollen lymph node will be removed to confirm the diagnosis of leukemia. This operation is called a lymphadenectomy.
Surgery is sometimes needed to place a central venous catheter into a large vein in the chest. The catheter is a small tube that is used to give you chemotherapy and other drugs. The tube can also be used to take samples of blood or for giving blood transfusions when needed. It prevents the need for many needle sticks during treatment.
Other Treatment
- Radiation therapy may be used to destroy cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation can be applied to one area or to the whole body. Sometimes it is used to treat leukemia that has spread to the brain and central nervous system or to prevent this spread. It also may be used to shrink swollen lymph nodes or to prepare your body for a bone marrow transplant.
- Stem cell transplant may be used to destroy all the cells in your bone marrow, including the leukemia cells, and replace them with new, normal cells. Most transplants are allogeneic. This means that the stem cells are donated by someone else. Transplants can also be autologous. This means that the stem cells come from your own body.
Complementary therapy
People sometimes use complementary therapies along with medical treatment to help relieve symptoms and side effects of cancer treatments. Some of the complementary therapies that may be helpful include:
- Acupuncture to relieve pain.
- Meditation or yoga to relieve stress.
- Massage and biofeedback to reduce pain and ease tension.
- Breathing exercises for relaxation.
Mind-body treatments like the ones listed above may help you feel better. They can make it easier to cope with cancer treatments. They also may reduce chronic low back pain, joint pain, headaches, and pain from treatments.
Before you try a complementary therapy, it is very important to talk to your doctor about the possible value and potential side effects. Let your doctor know if you are already using any such therapies. Complementary therapies aren't meant to take the place of standard medical treatment. But they may improve your quality of life and help you deal with the stress and side effects of cancer treatment.
Other Places To Get Help
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | |
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Fax: | (914) 949-6691 |
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Web Address: | www.leukemia.org |
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American Cancer Society (ACS) | |
Phone: | 1-800-ACS-2345 (1-800-227-2345) |
Web Address: | www.cancer.org |
The American Cancer Society (ACS) conducts educational programs and offers many services to people with cancer and to their families. Staff at the toll-free number have information about services and activities in local areas and can provide referrals to local ACS divisions. |
National Cancer Institute (NCI) | |
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a U.S. government agency that provides up-to-date information about the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer. NCI also offers supportive care to people who have cancer and to their families. NCI information is also available to doctors, nurses, and other health professionals. NCI provides the latest information about clinical trials. The Cancer Information Service, a service of NCI, has trained staff members available to answer questions and send free publications. Spanish-speaking staff members are also available. |
Related Information
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- Johnston JB, et al. (2009). Chronic lymphocytic leukemia. In JP Greer et al., eds., Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 12th ed., vol. 2, pp. 2214–2255. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Tigers ace Justin Verlander has a career 124-65 record with an ERA of 3.40. (Elizabeth Conley/Detroit News)
Over the long, barren winter from the last called strike of the World Series until the beginning of spring training, baseball is filled with debate and some controversy.
But there can be no argument about this vital subject: Pitchers are a different classification of athlete.
That is, if these creatures are to be considered athletes at all. And quite often they are silently ostracized by their teammates.
Pitchers are coddled; they are pampered. They are considered baseball's artisans.
Those of them who are starting pitchers work as quintuplets. The norm is that they are out of service four of every five days during the season.
And when they pitch, the number of times they throw is counted by adult men with clocking devices.
Shortstops and right fielders are not limited by pitch counts.
Pitchers are fragile — much more so than first baseman and center fielders.
The pitchers are so precious their tender arms are preserved in bags of ice cubes after every game in which they pitch. They are the first to receive the services of the team's masseur.
And always for the starting pitchers when the job gets too tough, they have other specialist pitchers available to rush into the games to rescue them.
Plus, the value of the specialist pitchers is so much that managers employ super-specialists who are withheld from the games until the ninth inning.
The general code of all major-league managers is never dare to use this super-specialist — known as the closer — in the eighth inning. Even if the bases are loaded, the incumbent pitcher is about to implode — and the hard-earned three-run lead is on the verge of disappearing.
Those are basic theories of the game.
And yes, the pitchers — even though they might appear in only one-fifth of the team's games — are paid fantastic sums. The best of them earn monies equivalent to sums paid to, say, the MVP third baseman — or the home-run slugging outfielder.
These are monies guaranteed over seven or five seasons — even if the precious arms might go bust on the Fourth of July. And the ice bag or something called Tommy John surgery cannot repair the shredded — priceless — arms.
There are reasons, of course, for this separation of pitchers and guys who toil daily in the field.
The pitchers are pampered and coddled because grizzled, leathery major-league managers tell us the craft of pitching is 75 percent of the game. This theory goes way back, far before Sparky Anderson and Tony La Russa revolutionized the pitching art with five-man starting rotations. It is before Sparky and Tony originated the quick hook to summon relievers with fresh arms to save the old ballgames.
Shoot, pitching being considered as 75 percent of the game became a clich� more than a century ago. Perhaps it spouted from the wisdom of John J. McGraw when he used Christy Mathewson and Iron Joe McGinnity on two days' of rest in the early 1900s.
The money wasn't so hot then. But the pitching was.
Iron Justin
The value of pitching never changes no matter how much the sport of baseball does change.
The urgent need for quality pitching is such that the other day the Seattle Mariners awarded Felix Hernandez a contract worth $175 million over seven seasons.
And consider Hernandez — nicknamed King Felix — never has been a 20-game winner, or pitched in a World Series. Consider that Hernandez never even pitched in a playoff game.
If Hernandez is known as King Felix, what might we call Justin Verlander?
How about we call him excellent, the best of the best — the ace of aces?
Verlander is committed to another two seasons on his current contract, $80 million for five years, with the Tigers. Not peanuts. Not, also, in the salary league of King Felix with the risky new contract.
But we are going to spend a considerable amount of time imagining what the high-scale bidding would amount to if the Tigers don't sign Verlander anew before his free agency date. That would be following the 2014 World Series.
The Internet speculation already has begun.
A provocative piece on Sports Illustrated's website was headlined: "Kershaw, Verlander in race to be first $200 million pitcher."
An excellent debate. The Dodgers, with their new ownership's spree-spending mindset, have the wherewithal to pay Clayton Kershaw that much over, say, seven years. Kershaw already has a National League Cy Young Award on his resume.
And the Tigers, it is well known, are eager to outbid any rival for any player they seriously covet.
Kershaw's appeal is that he is young, turning 25 on March 19. And he pitches with his left arm. But he has missed starts because of a fragile hip.
Hernandez signed his new contract amid reports of a fragile elbow.
There isn't any such character as an Iron Pitcher in today's baseball. But if the word were in current descriptive usage it could be applied to Justin Verlander.
Nothing fragile about the guy.
Verlander is due to become an ancient of 30 next Wednesday. He is older — as well as more durable — than Hernandez, who turns 27 on April 8, and Kershaw.
Partly another Sabermetric professorial treatise, the SI web piece — authored by an obviously diligent Jay Jaffe — did offer plenty of salient facts about Verlander's superiority.
To wit: Jaffe's breakdown of Verlander's 2013 and 2014 salary of $20 million per season ties him for No. 17 among all pitching moneymakers. The likes of A.J. Burnett and John Lackey earn more. Verlander's tie happens to be with Anibel Sanchez, the pitcher the Tigers retained in a free-agency auction after the recent World Series.
Also: Iron Justin is only the second pitcher to win in a season — 2011 — the Cy Young and most valuable player awards plus lead a league in victories, strikeouts and earned-run average.
The only other guy to assemble such a perfecta in a season was a rather spectacular pitcher from a half-century or so ago — Sandy Koufax.
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If King Felix Hernandez is worth $175 million for seven seasons, what could Justin Verlander be worth?
Just for debate, I did some research of my own.
Hernandez and Verlander both arrived in the major leagues in 2005. Justin was in for two spot starts, a pair of losses. Hernandez arrived in late season and went 4-4.
Now, Verlander has a career 124-65 record with an ERA of 3.40. Hernandez trails by a distance — 98-76 with an ERA of 3.22.
Each has won a Cy Young. King Felix — quite mysteriously — with a 13-12 record in 2010. The next year, Verlander won it with his 24-5 record plus the MVP double.
So far, Verlander has pitched two no-hitters. Hernandez pitched a perfect game last season.
As we prepare to start another go-around in 2013, my contention remains that baseball's most important statistic, obviously, is victories. Winning!
I have failed to figure out how the Sabermetric professors factor plain, old-fashioned victories into their WAR, ERA-Plus and assorted other stats.
Verlander has pitched the Tigers to two pennants. His record for postseason playoffs — divisional and league championship series — is 6-1.
True, Verlander is 0-3 in starts in the World Series.
Then again, King Felix pitches for the Mariners and, thus, carries a postseason record of 0-0.
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Faucet Hole Size | 1.375 |
Faucet Holes | 1 |
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Warrick County officials say they're offering a great site for the IU Medical School expansion. Head of Warrick Economic Development Larry Taylor tells WIKY News the area northeast of Deaconess Gateway Hospital is shovel ready, and there's lots of room.
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Move over silver. After more than a decade as the world's favorite car color, silver is falling in popularity to white. PPG, the leading supplier of automotive paints says 25 percent of the vehicles it supplied in the 2013 model year were white. Silver and black tied for second. PPG says automakers are scouting colors for the 2016 and 2017 model years, and the company predicts jewel-like colors such as rich greens and deep purples will be popular. Grays and browns are also gaining.
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An Evansville man is arrested for allegedly making threatening phone calls. Police say one of them from 42-year old Brady French was directed at an officer who had recently arrested his son. Investigators say a voicemail on one of the phone lines at Mayor Winnecke's office includes a death threat.
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More fallout from former State School Supt. Tony's Bennett's A-to-F school ratings system. The State's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Glenda Ritz, is suing the state board of education. Her suit filed in Marion Circuit Court names all 10 members of the board. It accuses them of violating the state's public meeting laws when they bypassed her last week to get data for A-to-F school ratings. Ritz says the board members failed to publish a public meeting notice as required by the law.
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Free clinics for EVSC employees may soon be established following a proposal presented to the school board. The two clinics will be used by eligible employees and their covered family members, saving money for those who are covered, the EVSC and ultimately the taxpayers. It's the next step by the EVSC to help employees be more healthy and fit, and to reduce insurance costs incurred by the school corporation.
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Do you have aging prescription drugs that may be ticking time bombs in your home? This Saturday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. you can get rid of them at State Police Posts in Evansville and Jasper. The 7th nationwide Prescription Drug Take Back initiative is targeting expired, unused and unwanted drugs that could make you sick or be stolen for illicit use by somebody else. The program covers pills and liquid medications but not needles.
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Military Academy night reset for this week
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This Wednesday evening, some of the best and brightest high school seniors will have an opportunity to take a step closer to admission to one of the nation's five military academies. The shutdown of the federal government forced members of congress to postpone events designed to give the students information about applying. The academy nights are being rescheduled. One will be held Wednesday from 5 to 7 at Senator Joe Donnelly's regional office at 123 N.W. Fourth Street.
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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's son is cited for on alcohol possession by a minor. It happened during the weekend at Keenland Race Track. 20-year old William Paul was ticketed during a "targeted enforcement detail" at the Lexington track. He can pay a $25 fine and court costs in advance or appear in court November 15 to answer the citation. Paul is a full-time student at UK. He faced alcohol-related charges in North Carolina earlier this year, but they were dismissed in a deferred prosecution program.
Idle youth numbers burgeoning
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A new study focuses on an alarming number of young people who are neither in school nor working. The Opportunity Nation Coalition says that 15% of the nation's young people ages 16 to 24 are essentially aimless. The study cites everything from income equality to college graduation rates to internet access. It also says some of the nation's largest cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago have some of the largest numbers of idle youth. Indiana Youth Institute figures show the number of jobless and schoolless young people in the state hovers around 9%.
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A new addition to Evansville's Christmas Parade...fireworks. Parade Director Gail Knight Williams says it will begin at the Civic Center parking lot, and travel the length of North Main Street to Bosse Field and Garvin Park. The two-hour parade will begin at 3:30 pm November 24, and she expects about 100 entries. Non-profits can register for free, and for profits have to pay just a small entry fee. Applications are due by November 1.
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The Shots of the Week from the World Challenge were as impressive as the finish
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf1 day agoOn Sunday at Sherwood Country Club, golf fans who have been hibernating from the game the last six weeks were entertained by some incredible golf by some of the biggest names in the world.
Tiger Woods, the host of the event, looked like he would cruise to another victory, but it was Zach Johnson who caught him thanks to a hole-out on the 72nd hole and then a short miss by Tiger in the playoff.
The wedge from Johnson was obviously the shot of the week, but it wasn't the only hole-out that took place at the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge.
Watch Matt Kuchar nearly make a double eagle, Bubba Watson use that impressive short game that won him the Masters, and Tiger nearly answer Johnson's pitch on the final hole with his own from a short-sided bunker.
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Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf2 days agoYou might remember John Peterson from Olympic Club back in 2012, when the unknown LSU fan with the great golf swing and putter cover in his back pocket nearly won that U.S. Open before Webb Simpson took home the trophy.
Peterson finished T-4 that week, and after a solid season this past year on the Web.com Tour, it's on to the PGA Tour for the 24-year-old Texan.
And apparently, Peterson really, really loves the game. So much that when he was stuck in a traffic jam on I-20 in Texas, he got out of his car, grabbed a couple of clubs and went to work on his golf game.
Peterson videotaped the whole experience which you can watch below, but I would say this probably isn't the best idea to past the time when you're in bumper-to-bumper traffic unless you're really accurate with your irons. I don't think "FORE!" works when people are sitting in their cars with the windows rolled up and the music on.
Tiger Woods blows four-shot lead with eight holes to go to Zach Johnson at his own tournament
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf2 days agoIt was an ending like no other on Sunday at Sherwood Country Club, with Zach Johnson taking down Tiger Woods at the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge in the most unusual of outcomes.
Tiger Woods missing a short putt to lose a tournament? It happened. Zach Johnson hitting an 8-iron from the middle of the fairway to a very accessible pin location only to shank it in the hazard on the final hole of regulation? Yep, that also was part of the bizarre finish in chilly California.
Woods had a four-shot lead over Johnson with eight holes to go on Sunday at his own event, and just when it looked like it was over Johnson birdied the 11th, 12th, 16th and 17th, and then came to the last tied with Woods, and had the advantage after finding the fairway as Woods missed well left.
Tiger had to hit a heroic second shot after missing the fairway to even get the ball on the green, but short-sided himself in the bunker and it was Johnson's tournament to win.
Johnson, a man known to be deadly with a wedge, had knocked down the last two flags to set up Tiger-catching birdies, and with a green light flag like the 18th on Sunday at Sherwood, it seemed that a birdie was much more likely than a bogey.
Jason Dufner plays a prank on Keegan Bradley during their opening round
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf5 days agoIf you've ever spent longer than 90 seconds on Twitter and you're a golf fan, you probably know that Jason Dufner and Keegan Bradley like to mess with each other. Both are always sending stuff to one other poking fun like buddies tend to do.
During the opening round of the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge, Dufner and Bradley were paired together and it was the Auburn fan that got the best of Bradley.
After avoiding a rock in the bunker, Dufner was handed it by his caddie to toss out of the trap, but instead of doing it, he just put the rock in Bradley's golf bag.
While this event has big names in the field, it is still a fun golf tournament and stuff like this shows just that.
If I was Bradley, I would definitely focus my prank revenge on the television Dufner is watching when the SEC Championship comes down to the end.
Teeing Off: Are December events necessary for golf?
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf7 days agoWelcome to Teeing Off, where Devil Ball editor Shane Bacon and national columnist Jay Busbee take a day's topic and smack it all over the course. Suggest a future topic by hitting us on Twitter at@shanebacon and @jaybusbee. Today we talk about the Silly Season, and if these golf tournaments help or hurt the game.
Bacon: This week marks the conclusion of these weird "tournaments that matter but don't really matter" events that golf has when the PGA Tour and European Tour's seasons end. We used to call it the Silly Season, but I'm not sure that completely grasps what is happening now considering how great the field is for Tiger's tournament.
All that aside, do you think these events are good for the game or are a little overkill for golf fans considering there is basically a tournament 52 weeks out of the year?
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Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf7 days agoTo be a good golfer you need plenty of tools, but one of the things that really talented golfers are the best at is recovering from a bad golf shot. Tiger Woods has made a career out of getting out of trouble when he hits a bad drive or finds himself in a precarious situation, as has Phil Mickelson and some of the other big names in the game.
It's a skill just like putting and chipping, and it's what makes some of the professional golfers we watch week in and week out so amazing.
Introduce Matt Wheatcroft, a gentleman who was playing in the British Par-3 Championship a few months back. Wheatcroft found himself almost out of bounds on the short fourth hole, just inches away from a post that basically gave him no swing at all. The logical play here would be to take an unplayable lie, try to make your bogey and move to the next hole.
Wheatcroft had a different idea. He decided to go Roy McAvoy against the outhouse and bank it off the post, hoping to get a good bounce and get the ball somewhere on the green.
Jason Dufner kindly asks Tiger Woods to shorten event this week so he can watch Auburn football
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf8 days agoOn Saturday night in Alabama, the Auburn Tigers pulled off one of the most stunning last second wins in the history of college football, taking out top-seeded Alabama thanks to a failed field goal return by Chris Davis.
Unless you are Hanks in "Castaway" you've seen a few highlights of that play, but Auburn's quest for a national championship is now just heating up.
Auburn plays Missouri on Saturday at 4 PM ET, meaning those lucky professional golfers that got the invite to Tiger Woods' event in California will be missing a good portion of that game, if not all of it.
Which Auburn Tiger is in the field, and has kindly asked Tiger Woods to shorten the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge from four days to two days? That would be our PGA Championship winner, Jason Dufner, who went to Twitter on Monday to ask the top golfer in the world if he wouldn't mind this slight tweak.
Dear Mr @TigerWoods I petition the event this week to play 36 holes Thurs and Friday,so I can watch my beloved Auburn play for SEC champ thx
Rory McIlroy's season-ending win conjures up thoughts of Tiger's win at Sherwood
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf9 days agoVenture back with me to 2011, when the PGA Tour season had long wrapped up and the only tournaments left on the year's schedule were Silly Season events and pocket-stuffer tournaments for the big names.
Tiger Woods was set to host the Chevron World Challenge (now the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge) and while the tournament didn't mean anything for career numbers or FedEx Cup points, it meant a lot for the confidence of the tournament host.
Woods had lost the year before to Graeme McDowell in a playoff as he entered the final round with a four-shot lead, and his '11 PGA Tour season ended without a single victory.
In '11 at Sherwood Country Club, it was Tiger who was able to make the clutch putts down the stretch that had been missing for more than two years, and his victory over Zach Johnson there not only was his first win since the '09 Australian Masters, but it catapulted him to a 2012 season that saw Woods lift trophies on the PGA Tour three times, and five times a season later.
Rory McIlroy ends 2013 drought with win at the Australian Open
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf10 days agoThis season wasn't supposed to happen to Rory McIlroy. Nope, this was the year that Rory was expected to sign his monster club and clothing deal with Nike and burst out of the gate with the Swoosh and the swagger and the knowledge that he is the Next Big Thing in the game of golf and nobody else was even close.
That, of course, didn't happen. McIlroy struggled all season with his golf swing and his attitude and rumors after rumors that tend to follow around a high profile athlete like this 24-year-old Northern Irishman.
But Sunday at the Australian Open was a different story. Half a world away from a tough season on the PGA Tour, McIlroy was one of the headliners at the Royal Sydney Golf Club and after two rounds the tournament had the dream final group they had hoped for.
McIlroy was paired with beloved Australian Adam Scott and it seemed for the final 36 holes it was simply a battle between these two major champions.
Rory came to the final hole needing a birdie to win his first professional event of the season and deny Scott the Triple Crown of Australian golf (Scott had already won the Australian Masters and Australian PGA in November).
What We're Thankful For 2013: Devil Ball Golf
Shane Bacon at Devil Ball Golf14 days agoWith Thanksgiving upon us, each Yahoo Sports blog is taking stock of what they're thankful for while also providing menu suggestions and a sport-specific viewing guide for when you hit your couch. Share what you're thankful for on Twitter with the #YSBThanks hashtag or in the comments below. Have a safe and happy holiday!
Shane Bacon, Devil Ball editor
That the Masters is just 134 days away: No matter what golf fans say, there is one week each year that we circle with a really, really big green marker and sit in anticipation as the days count down to Augusta National.
Considering it's the most popular golf course in the world hosting the first major championship of the year, it's no surprise it happens to be the most cherished. No offense to the high rough of the U.S. Open or the beautiful history that surrounds the British or the finale that is the PGA Championship, but the Masters is the best week of the year in the golf world and counting days until it begins is something every golf fan is thankful for.


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