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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Sources: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a> also pushing to complete deal with Cruz, who recently changed agents, signing with Relativity Sports.</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Sources: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a> also pushing to complete deal with Cruz, who recently changed agents, signing with Relativity Sports.</p>? Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="
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Nelson Cruz Switches Agents

By Mark Polishuk [October 6, 2014 at 12:25pm CDT]

Nelson Cruz has switched agencies and is now represented by Diego Bentz of Relativity Sports, FOX Sports? Ken Rosenthal reports (via Twitter). Cruz had previously been represented by WMG?s Adam Katz.

Though Cruz and the Orioles are on their way to the ALCS, the 34-year-old slugger is clearly preparing himself for free agency this winter. Cruz received only a one-year, $8MM deal from Baltimore on the open market last offseason as his value was depressed by a PED suspension, his age and the first-round draft pick compensation tied to him via the qualifying offer. After hitting 40 homers with a .859 OPS in 2014, however, Cruz looks in good shape to score a multiyear deal even though the O?s will surely tag him with the qualifying offer.

Relativity?s list of baseball clients includes such major names as David Ortiz, Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander, Andrelton Simmons, Jordan Zimmermann, Julio Teheran, Paul Goldschmidt, Madison Bumgarner and Jhonny Peralta. As ESPN?s Enrique Rojas tweets (in Spanish), Peralta received a four-year, $53MM deal from the Cardinals last winter despite his own ties to the Biogenesis scandal, though Peralta didn?t have draft pick compensation hanging over him.

For more on who represents who around the baseball world, check out the MLBTR Agency Database.

Maybe his old agent was actually dragging his feet with the Orioles negotiations.

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Give him a QO and let him walk. Rotate Pierce and Davis at 1B and DH. Put De Aza in left.

I'd rather give Cruz the contract and non tender Davis. Cruz will likely only be a couple more million dollars than Davis would be, while giving far more production.

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I'd rather give Cruz the contract and non tender Davis. Cruz will likely only be a couple more million dollars than Davis would be, while giving far more production.

Davis is 28. If he bounces back next year at least to a .230 30 homer guy, he will be worth what he will get in arbitration. You then have the option of giving him a qualifying offer or letting him walk. Heck, you may get lucky and he might have a 40 homer type of year.

How many 50+ homer guys just fall off the face of the earth? This was a down year for Chris. He isn't near this bad.

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Davis is 28. If he bounces back next year at least to a .230 30 homer guy, he will be worth what he will get in arbitration. You then have the option of giving him a qualifying offer or letting him walk. Heck, you may get lucky and he might have a 40 homer type of year.

How many 50+ homer guys just fall off the face of the earth? This was a down year for Chris. He isn't near this bad.

Ryan Howard? The good thing for us is that Davis didn't wait until his giant contract to become terrible.

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