Published 11/20/2008
at SI.com - MLB
By Christmastime of 2000, Mike Mussina was already 32 years old. He had been on five All-Star teams. He was a perennial American League Cy Young candidate. Everybody loved him. Everybody wanted him. "Moose" had 10 years in the league with the Orioles by that time. He had racked up 147 wins. He was the Orioles' future. He was, in every sense of the word, an ace.
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