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Poor economy has led to slow overall movement

By Peter Gammons

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The catchphrase of the fall and winter has been "wait it out." Typically, when the World Series ends, agents throw out their free agents and say there goes "Swifty", and then clubs bolt out of the box like greyhounds. But not this year. As we sit here today, only one free agent has signed with a different team than he played for in 2008, Jeremy Affeldt with the Giants. Now, we know Mark Teixeira is going to sign for hundreds of millions, even if he won't get $200 million. But we don't know if M ...

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