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Contract-year players to watch in 2008

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Money talks. Don't believe it? Ask Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada, Torii Hunter, Aaron Rowand and Mike Lowell, who parlayed big 2007s into huge winter paydays; they netted a combined $514.9 million in contract dollars this winter. To a lesser extent, guys like Kaz Matsui and Troy Percival cashed in, too; their deals totaled $24.5 million. It's not only the 2007-08 free-agent class that demonstrates the lure of what we in the fantasy realm like to call the "contract-year player." History is litte ...

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