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Type A positive

By Buster Olney

Friday, October 2, 2009

Jason Varitek and Juan Cruz found themselves boxed into a maze of baseball rules and regulations last winter, walled in by circumstance. But they probably won't be the last players to face this kind of quandary if the predictions of some executives and player representatives hold true. To review, here's what happened with Varitek and Cruz: Both were classified as Type A free agents and both were offered arbitration by their teams, the Red Sox and Diamondbacks respectively. This meant that if ei ...

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