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Deal of the Year - Dockworkers Pact
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Lasting impact: top deals of 2002.
Dodgers' Dilemma
The good news for baseball fans this year may turn out to be bad news for Dodgers fans in 2003. Determined not to exceed the $117 million salary cap established in the 11th-hour labor agreement between owners and the player's union last September, Dodgers owner Fox is tightening the purse strings. And because the team has much of its payroll tied up in a handful of inflated contracts, General Manager Dan Evans will be challenged to make improvements on the third-place performance in 2002. Major offseason moves have been largely about dollars and cents. The team jettisoned veterans Eric Kanos and Mark Grudzielanek to the Chicago Cubs and picked up first baseman Fred McGriff at the relative bargain rate of $3.75 million. But fans would be smart not to count on any other big signings. Even with big financial losses in 2001 and 2002, no one could accuse the team of penny-pinch...See the full content of this document
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