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Identifying more young players who could cash in

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 22, 2008

As best we can tell, no up-and-coming 23-year-old star has signed a seven-year contract in the past 12 minutes. But you'd better check the old transactions column to make sure of that -- because at this rate, every young player in baseball, with the possible exception of Jeff Fiorentino, will be signed for life by the end of the week. Oh, all right. Not all of them. Hard as it may be to believe this -- in a week when Ryan Braun, Hanley Ramirez, Joakim Soria and Scott Kazmir signed deals guara ...

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