Madden: D-Backs-A?s megadeal works for both teams

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These are giddy times in Arizona and Oakland, where, with the youth-filled Diamondbacks and Athletics, it's baseball as it oughta be - and the respective GMs, Josh Byrnes and Billy Beane, are justifiably patting each other on the back for their blockbuster winter deal that already has had significan [link]

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Madden: D-Backs-A’s pitching megadeal works for both teams
Published 5/4/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Madden: D-Backs-A’s pitching megadeal works for both teams In between delusional champagne toasts to Norma Zimmer...Madden finds time to spit out another column. These are giddy times in Arizona and Oakland, where, with the youth-filled Diamondbacks and Athletics, it’s baseball as it oughta be - and the respective GMs, Josh Byrnes and Billy Beane, are justifiably patting each other on the back for their blockbuster winter deal that already has had significant impact for both clubs. Let’s, for a moment, revisit that Dec. 14 trade in which Beane reluctantly determined his ...

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