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BP Daily: The bargain pitcher market

By Shawn Hoffman
Baseball Prospectus

Friday, September 11, 2009

Want a top-of-the-rotation starter this winter? You might want to check the trade market, because this year's pool of free-agent starting pitchers is mediocre at best and downright boring at worst. That's a sharp contrast from last year's group, which featured CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Derek Lowe at the top, and had teams bidding against each other in one of the worst economic environments we've ever seen. That's obviously bad news for teams looking for new aces, but it could end up bei ...

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