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This is crazy, what happened to small market talk/Moneyball?
I can only think of 2 explanations:
1. They are going to flip him for considerably more than they are giving up.
2. Matt Holliday is about to become the best OF, maybe hitter period, in MLB, and the A's will laugh as they sign him to considerably less than Manny and the others.
anything other than those 2 makes no sense to me.