mlb.mlb.com - 10/20/2008
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Will the Rangers pick up Hank Blalock's option? -- Patrick G., Grand Prairie, Texas Yes. This is from Baseball Economics 101: If you can get a productive player on a one-year contract at a reasonable price, then you do the deal. In baseball, the age of a player is less of a concern than his ...
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Odds and Ends: Dice-K, Varitek, Rolen
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
Links for Monday...
Tim Brown and Peter Abraham offer their takes on the top free agents.
A note from Abraham - if Daisuke Matsuzaka finishes top three in the AL Cy Young vote, he'll get an extra $2MM in each of the '09 and '10 seasons.
The Mariners could hire their new GM as soon as tomorrow. Geoff Baker discussed the merits of the four ...
New T.R. Sullivan mailbag up
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T.R. Sullivan has a new mailbag column up...
We have some wacky trade proposals, as usual, along with some stuff on Hank Blalock (who Sullivan has generally been pretty bullish on, and who he expects to be back in 2009)...
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