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Texas Rangers exploring long-term contract for Hamilton | WFAA.com | Sports: Top Stories
07:31 PM CDT on Thursday, May 22, 2008 By EVAN GRANT / The Dallas Morning News egrant@dallasnews.com MINNEAPOLIS – The latest contractual trend in baseball is to lock up players with less than two years' experience to deals that extend well past eventual free agency. In the wake of several recent deals, the Rangers have started exploring the possibility with Josh Hamilton. Hamilton, who has ...
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Rangers Talking Long-Term Deal For Hamilton
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — ... According to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News, the Rangers have discussed a long-term deal for center fielder Josh Hamilton internally as well as with his agent.  Hamilton, 27, has to be considered the current frontrunner for the AL MVP award.  No pair of teammates in the AL has combined for more offensive production than Hamilton and Milton Bradley. ...

Short Hops: Instant Replay, Doug Davis...
Baseball Digest Daily — ....With all the young talent being locked up to huge deals lately (Ryan Braun and Hanley Ramirez say hi!), it seems that the Texas Rangers are looking to lock up Josh Hamilton. They've started to explore this, according to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News . ...The Instant Replay debate has heated up in recent days. ...

Josh Hamilton and Rangers Talking Long-Term
FanHouse — ... because the White Sox are in first and I'm an unrepentant homer). He's hitting .335/.377/.611 and leads the AL with 12 home runs and all of baseball with 53 RBI, and looks like a real threat to win the Triple Crown. It's the kind of season that would make a team want to sign a guy to a long-term deal, as is all the rage these days for young stars, and that's exactly what the Rangers are hoping to do with Josh. ...

Pirates and Cubs: live blog after a brutal 8th inning
Blue Collar Baseball — ... Pirate back on the field. The team really needs his glove. The left side of the infield is brutal! B10: Michaels up with with 1 out... he's had a great game... please let him launch one or something... strike out... Matt Capps is batting? He's already pitched two innings. This is a questionable decision by John Russell... ugh... strikeout. On a sidenote: Here's a couple of nice articles about Josh Hamilton... there are rumors that the Rangers may give him a long-term deal. On the other end of that deal... Edinson Volquez pitched masterfully last ...

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