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The Biz: The Price of Winning

By Peter Bernstein

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Mega-deals and all, this off-season seems par for baseball's recent financial course. The Braves could land Derek Lowe today, Manny Ramirez could head to the Bay, but mostly the Yankees are doing what they do, trying to spend their way to the World Series. Others show caution. And yet, the storyline feels the same. The Yanks will have to beat out the relatively quiet Red Sox and bargain basement Rays for the AL East. The Rays, who took baseball's second-lowest payroll to the World Series las ...

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