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Thome expected to make decision today

ESPN.com news services

Sunday, December 1, 2002

CLEVELAND -- Jim Thome spent part of his holiday weekend hunting -- and being hunted. Thome, baseball's most coveted free agent slugger, is expected to end a monthlong, two-team courtship today by announcing whether he will stay with the Cleveland Indians or sign with the Philadelphia Phillies. "We've done our negotiating. We've done our selling," Indians general manager Mark Shapiro said Sunday night. "It's in Jim's hands. We're anxiously awaiting his decision." Shapiro said he spoke with Pa ...

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