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Very few quality starters will be available this winter

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

We came across a National League general manager the other day who was perusing his handy-dandy roster of this winter's free-agent starting pitchers. Let's just say it wasn't up there with "Harry Potter" on his list of uplifting summer reading. "You look at this list," he said, "and you can get it confused with the six-year [minor league] free-agent list." That, by the way, is not a compliment. We live in an age when nobody -- not even that Little League World Series team from Lubbock, Texa ...

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