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Relief Efforts: Pay for Saves?

By David Young
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

I am declaring April 2, 2007, the end of the "Don't Pay for Saves" Era. It was fun while it lasted. Unfortunately, the second Brad Lidge gave up a two-out, first-pitch, save-blowing homer to Xavier Nady, we all ran to the waiver wire to pick up Dan Wheeler, who, we found out, had already been drafted. He was drafted early, in fact, before lesser closers like Octavio Dotel and Salomon Torres. Face it, as I've said for months, the proliferation of information regarding pitchers available on th ...

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