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Strasburg, Nationals need each other

By Peter Gammons

Monday, August 17, 2009

As the Stephen Strasburg negotiations wore down toward the Monday deadline (midnight ET), it started to become as political as health care. It is, after all, Washington, and so as Scott Boras stuck to his pledge to privatize the bargaining, the Nationals campaigned, in case they cannot come to an agreement. Nats president Stan Kasten warned fans that Strasburg, like 2008 No. 1 pick Aaron Crow, might not sign. Naturally, he blamed Boras and touted the greatest offer ever made, greater than the r ...

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