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is a factor that teams really would be stupid not to analyze, and to the Nth degree.
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I definitely appreciate your point that in theory, it's a lot easier for a Jason Bay (Richie Sexson) to lose 70% of his value than to add 70% to his value.
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That said, a basic tenet of Stars & Scrubs is that it's much easier for a Civic like Russ Branyan to collapse and be worth nothing, than for Ichiro to do so :- )