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Bar has been set, so let the spending begin

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Friday, December 1, 2006

Adam Eaton, the pride of Snohomish, Wash., made a lot of people happy when he agreed to terms with the Philadelphia Phillies this week. And this was before he passed his physical exam. When Eaton signed off on a three-year, $24.5 million deal with an option for a fourth year, his fellow pitchers and their agents rejoiced. The corresponding response, naturally, was a negative one from executives who viewed it as a springboard to fiscal insanity. "He's a latter-day Kris Benson," an American Leag ...

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