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Sheets poster boy for unsettled offseason

By Buster Olney

Saturday, January 24, 2009

It wasn't that long ago when the Seattle Mariners gave Carlos Silva a four-year, $48 million deal, and it wasn't that long ago when Miguel Batista got $25 million over three years and when Jeff Suppan signed a four-year, $42 million contract. No, it wasn't in another world and time when Jarrod Washburn received a four-year, $37.5 million deal. Those deals were struck in days of relative economic bliss, however, and now, at a time when many people are being laid off and some banks are being shut ...

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