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Article: Free agents didn't reap as much this time
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- January 8, 2006
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ATLANTA -- With more than half of the winter crop of free agents
now signed -- 97 out of 183 who filed in November -- it might be
possible to claim baseball is actually behaving itself.
No one will get the deals like Carlos Beltran or Magglio Ordonez
got last winter. Framed against 2004, when the average salary
actually dropped 2.7 percent, you might think ownership has learned
something.
Or, you might not.
"Most people in baseball would tell you that this free agent class
was viewed as, if not weak, then thin, very shallow," Braves general
manager John Schuerholz said. "And the way it seems our industry
dealt with it was to spend more money."
With most of the big-ticket contracts out of the ...