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Phillies strike out in Abreu deal

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

It Isn't Just The Money Would the Yankees have been able to trade for Abreu without their unparalleled five-tool check-writing talents? Of course not. But the people who think they're only about money are the same people who think everything in life is about money. It isn't just about the bucks they have. It's about the brains they employ to spend those bucks. And Brian Cashman, his baseball entourage and his club's president and dollar-allocator, Randy Levine, proved again over the weekend h ...

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