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Santana's huge contract could be telling sign for future

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Friday, February 1, 2008

It was a great day in the life of Johan Santana. Any time you've just become the highest-paid pitcher in the history of pitching, that's a day right up there with Christmas. And it was a great day in the life of the New York Mets. Any time you've just traded for the best pitcher in the solar system -- without touching any of the surrounding cast you were planning on putting around him -- that's a sensational day. It's a lot better day than, say, fumbling away a playoff spot in Game 162, anyw ...

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