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Sandy- Regarding Beltre:  I think that his situation has to be more of a business decision than a baseball one.  He fought hard twice to get back from injury while the team was at least kind of in the race so in a sense, he's owed the time.  He's also in a contract year and really needed to perform well this month to maximize the dollars.  Of course, he didn't do that but the M's want to be seen as a team that looks out for guys on the way out, too.  
If Beltre were sat this last month when healthy, he could conceivably poison the waters for some prospective FA's that we want to bring in.  That all said, I would expect him to take a few days off between now and the end to see some other guys.  And I agree about Hanahan, don't need to see him at all and he wouldn't be in my plans next year.  We need a few bats to compete.