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It's been reported that the markets for Matt Holliday is between five teams; the Cardinals, Yankees, Dodgers, Angels and Mets...With Scott Boras as his agent this will be a long and drawn out process with at least one mystery teams and numerous rumors.But if all shakes out right the Mets could be the only team truly involved in the Holliday sweepstakes. Lets include Boston since they're on the east coast and a large market team, if they re-sign Jason Bay they'll be out of the running.It sounds like the Dodgers will out of it once the Manny option is picked up which seems inevitable at this point. The Angels even in losing Vlad have a very expensive outfield in Juan Rivera, Gary Matthews Jr., Bobby Abreu and Tori Hunter. Of course, if they move Matthews' bad contract then there is the chance that they could get involved.I will consider the Yankees the front runners if they don't resign Damon and/or Matsui, but if they do it could take them out of contention. When...
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