Globe: Free Agents And Management trending up and down

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Who won the playoff between Detroit and Price and his Cy Young winners and the mighty Bud Norris? Huh?

The better team.

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Olney .

1. Some evaluators have noted that there will be an enormous volume of very good to great players available this winter, either via free agency or trade, including: Zack Greinke, Jason Heyward, David Price, Alex Gordon, Yoenis Cespedes, Johnny Cueto, Ben Zobrist, Jordan Zimmermann, Justin Upton, Chris Davis, Matt Wieters.

"A lot of these guys will be looking for big contracts," one executive said. "But I don't know if everybody is going to come close to what they're looking for. Some years there aren't a lot of good players available, but that's not going to be the case this winter."

No. And some evaluators believe that the trade market could water down the market, if the likes of Sonny Gray, Yasiel Puig, Andrelton Simmons and others are added to the flood of available players.

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Olney .

If Simmons goes for cheap it will make the Hardy extension even more painful.