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The return of baseball's great divide

By Buster Olney

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

There have been nine different teams that have won championships in the past 10 seasons, from the Yankees to the Diamondbacks to the Angels and Marlins, and of course the championship-level sprints by the Athletics and Indians and the Twins and Rockies and Rays. Baseball may never play on a perfectly level financial playing field, but the past decade has seen the game move toward competitive parity. The events of the past few months, however, have some club executives in the game concerned abou ...

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