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Crawford should be arbitration eligible this year, I think - and if so not so cheap for the D-Rays. Also, they've got Delmon Young coming up and may be willing to make a deal to have a place to play him. I can't see him costing as much as Dunn, either in terms of salary or acquisition price.




crawford got signed to a semi-long term contract earlier this year (maybe in the offseason, i dont remember) so i think the rays definitely want crawford around. if anyone gets traded its joey gathright.


i think nomar is going to get a low money, incentive based one year contract, in which case we definitely need to attempt to pick him up. worst case scenerio, for 20 games he is an improvement over everett and then gets injured for the rest of the season not picking up the incentives and keeping his salary low. dont know if it will be as totally low risk as i expect it to, but hes not going to command top dollar or anything remotely approaching a long term contract. especially if we can pick him up before furcal gets signed, everyone will be in a bidding war over furcal and that would allow us get him under the radar so to speak.