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Type A free agents face dilemma

By Buster Olney

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Orlando Cabrera and Jason Varitek and Juan Cruz continue to reside in compensation-pick purgatory, a place where no free agent ever wants to land. It's a place created by a two-sided vise: the rules of baseball's Basic Agreement on one side and a worsening economy on the other. Cabrera, Varitek, Cruz and some other free agents are Type A free agents, and they are having a difficult time in the current market because teams appear to be reluctant to surrender the kind of contract that the play ...

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