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Bad contracts and bad Anna

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

A couple of days remain at baseball's winter meetings but we already have the winners in the annual Contracts That We Will Be Mocking Within Two Years contest. Determined to prove they have money to waste -- just like the U.S. teams! -- the Blue Jays signed closer B.J. Ryan (42 career saves) to a five-year, $47 million contract last week. Worried that the Yankees received all the headlines the past couple winters for having wasted money on Kevin Brown and Carl Pavano, the Mets issued a preempt ...

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