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Alvarez, Manny situations a mess

Thursday, August 28, 2008

There are so many unfortunate elements to this Pedro Alvarez story: how a very good kid may spend years being booed as a mercenary in Pittsburgh, how it stains the hard work general manager Neal Huntington has put into the reconstruction of the Pirates, how it hurts fans who are dying to recapture what Jim Leyland and Barry Bonds built. When this all goes before an arbitrator we will find out how much Alvarez, Huntington and the Pittsburgh fans were caught in the crossfire of the war between S ...

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