Today's Grand Slams are essentially a heavier-jacket version of the Hot-Cor. There's nothing wrong with that, as anybody who's used Hot-Cors knows, and I've used a lot of 'em over the years. But a heavy-jacket Hot-Cor isn't like a Nosler Partition, and the two-core Grand Slams performed a lot like Partitions when they hit game.


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