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So adding a Vlad Guerrero or Manny Ramirez or Adrian Gonzalez is sheer suicide, huh.
There's an argument for staying out of the FA market, but you're starting to sound like a superstar add is a death knell. ;- )
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Not that WS wins are the way to judge this, but the 2001-07 Red Sox built their success around Manny. Your Braves built their success around Maddux. You could find a ton of similar situations, I'm sure.
One place I will agree, is that most of the FA success stories involved getting a guy young, and very expensive, and keeping him around for like 8 years.