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Ruthian-like Alvarez focuses on future

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, March 26, 2009

"You can't walk away from the price you pay." -- Pedro Alvarez fan Bruce Springsteen BRADENTON, Fla. -- The details of Pedro Alvarez's long, lost summer of negotiating madness don't matter anymore. It doesn't matter now who said what. It doesn't matter now whether Alvarez's original contract, from last Aug. 15, was agreed to before midnight, after midnight or only in the Pirates' imagination. It doesn't matter now whether that contract was later voided, grieved, shredded or translated into P ...

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