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   This year, it seems there is a “rising phoenix” in Surprise, Arizona, and it has got a lot of people ____21 ____. Chien-Ming Wang’s remarkable spring comeback has landed him back in the big leagues in Texas the Royals. The entire league is wondering how Chien-Ming Wang, a 35-year-old, twice injured ____22____ pitcher who was sitting at 86-88 mph in AAA last year is now bumping 96 mph and is showing better stuff than any time in his career. Wang has not pitched in MLB since 2013. He spent the 2014-15 seasons ___23___around Triple-A and an independent league. The former Yankees ace won 38 games from 2006-07 and his once ___24___ sinker topped out at 89 mph, but a foot injury in 2008 and a major shoulder injury in 2009 ___25__ his career. Wang suffered a torn shoulder capsule. Torn capsules usually ____26___ the death for pitchers, which has ended the careers of Rich Harden, Mark Prior, and John Maine, among others. Wang lost a lot of ____27___off his trademark sinker following the surgery, hence his ineffectiveness. By last summer, he was still lost into the ____28____ of darkness and toiling in an independent league, his career beginning to fade away. Now the Internet gurus are ____29___ to analyze his mechanics, looking for the “magic bullet” change that holds the secret to his improvement. The secret of “the rising Phoenix” lies in the Ron Wolforth, a(n) ___30_ pitching guru Ron Wolforth’s off-season boot camp _ and peculiar pitching guru who promised help. After a two-year exile to the minor leagues, Wang enrolled in and came to receive intensive training and recovery sessions.