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Ken Davidoff's baseball insider

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

Rafael Soriano, Matt Garza and Brian Fuentes

We've discussed a few times this winter Brian Cashman's reluctance to give up a first-round draft pick to sign Rafael Soriano as a setup man. Today, Cashman came right out and told Chad Jennings of the Journal News that he wouldn't sign Soriano, because of the draft pick.

I don't think it's fully a bluff. This is consistent with Cashman's philosophy on the draft. Since getting full power as...

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