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NL outspends AL in a big way

Friday, February 9, 2007

Over the last five years, the Yankees and the Red Sox went to battle over players like Jose Contreras, Javier Vazquez and Johnny Damon, and the spending of these two superpowers forced other AL teams to spend aggressively in an effort to keep up. As the talent race in the AL escalated -- the Toronto Blue Jays' $55 million signing of A.J. Burnett, the Orioles acquisition of Ramon Hernandez and the Mariners signing Richie Sexson and Adrian Beltre -- the disparity between the two leagues has seeme ...

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