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From: radio@spuxll.UUCP (Rick Farina)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Pirate`s Fire Sale Continues...
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 13:31:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 13:31:42 1985
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In a stoke of genius ranking right up there with the Yankees` dumping of 
Steve Kemp onto the Pirates earlier this year, the Pirates -- in one swoop 
-- made themselves more attractive to potential buyers by trading
Hendrick, Candalaria, and Holland to California in exchange
for several young [read: cheap] players. 

This leaves just Thompson, Kemp, and Madlock as the only counter-productive 
[read: seven-figure salary] players on the team. Once these three are 
dispatched, the team will have relatively no salary overhead, and could be 
sold quicker than a Springsteen ticket.

One is free to speculate on how easily Pirates GM Joe Brown will be able to 
unload these last three. After all, there simply aren`t many teams around 
with the free-agent/talent savvy of the Angels, except, of course, for the 
Yankees. 

The Yankees have already had Kemp (fool me once shame on you, 
fool me twice shame on me...). However, they HAVE tried to get Thompson 
from the Pirates before -- in fact, just before his brillianlty executed 
salary-drive season of 1982. Who knows? They still might be interested.
And the Yankees still have third base problems. 
Madlock used to play third base, right?

Go get `em Joe -- avenge the Kemp/Berra deal!

raf
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