PEDRO'S PITCH: JOHAN A BETTER PERSON THAN PLAYER
Published 2/7/2008 by By JOEL SHERMAN at NY Post: Sports
FRED Wilpon already was ebullient. His organization had closed a deal over the weekend with its No. 1 offseason target, Johan Santana. Now, after a lunch made by the mother of Jose Reyes and a tour of the Mets' soon-to-be-open, state-of-the-art...
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