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To: trouthead who wrote (27897)	10/27/1997 12:29:00 PM
From: MangoBoy	Respond to of 31386

[chat - marlins] since this seems to be of some interest and it might provide some distraction from today's debacle, here's a note i just wrote to JW. mark p.s. Deion was signed for league-minimum salary back in '91. --- << Also amazing, the Marlins payroll is less than that of any team they played to get to the Series. >> the Marlins had a higher payroll than the S.F. Giants. It's true that Atlanta has a higher payroll, but with the exception of Maddux and (very indirectly) Kenny Lofton, all their major players either came up through the amazing Braves farm system or (McGriff, Neagle) were acquired in trade for players that came up through the system. Lofton: the Braves signed Deion Sanders as a free agent after he was waived by the N.Y. Yankees. Sanders was traded to the Reds for Roberto Kelly. Kelly was traded, along with Tony Tarasco and Estaban Yan, to the Expos for Marquis Grissom. Grissom and David Justice were traded to Cleveland for Kenny Lofton and Alan Embree. Tarasco, Yan, and Justice all came up through the Braves system. McGriff: Acquired in 1993 from San Diego for three minor leaguers. Neagle: Acquired in 1996 from the Pirates from three minor leaguers. Except for Maddux (1992), I can't remember the last time the Braves went out and signed a top-tier free agent. In the off-season the Marlins signed Bonilla, Alou, Alex Fernandez, Jim Eisenreich. Kevin Brown, Dennis Cook, Devon White, and Al Leiter were all free agent signings too. I find it vulgar (ditto Baltimore, the Yankees, and to a lesser degree Cleveland).