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Ken Davidoff's baseball insider

Yankees, Mets, trade rumors, free agents, off-the-wall predictions and other MLB musings.

"Imperfections on the market," starting Pat Burrell and Curtis Granderson

During my time at the shortened GM meetings, I was telling one industry official about the Mets' decision (at this point) to not go after the Rays' Pat Burrell in a trade, due to Burrell's lousy defense.

The official rolled his eyes and said, "Just lift him late in the game."

"People get too caught up in certain things and overvalue them," the...

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