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Free agents who've thrived on the cheap

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

At the height of the free-agent shopping season, the average baseball fan was paralyzed with fear about the credit crunch, the housing meltdown, rising unemployment numbers and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The average MLB executive was, too. So it was understandable that once Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and a few other players received their big-ticket deals, general managers throughout the game spent a lot of time trolling for bargains. Which teams did th ...

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