Found January 10, 2009 on Bleeding Blue and Teal:
Ever since the JJ Putz trade happened last month it’s been speculated that the Mariners could trade Aaron Heilman in a seperate deal since a bunch of teams had shown interest in Heilman before the M’s acquired Bruce Levine of ESPN radio has reported a rumor about the Cubs being interested ...
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