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Protected list projections

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Tuesday, March 9, 2004

How do teams go about deciding who to protect for the expansion draft? It's an emerging science that many teams are still wrestling with. Insider talked to numerous team sources to try to get insight into that process, and from those conversations we have made our first attempt at projecting who will and won't be protected for the expansion draft. The rules are pretty simple. Teams are allowed to protected a maximum of eight players for the expansion draft. Since unrestricted free agents are i ...

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