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Goold: There's a growing argument that the Cardinals can't compete without spending big
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The St. Louis Cardinals could spend like the San Diego Padres
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MLB trade deadline: Rumors, predictions, answering biggest questions
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The best game that money could buy - The Japan Times
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New York Mets: How they started winning again despite decades of dysfunction - Sports Illustrated
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MLB 2023 predictions: boom or bust, the Padres will be entertaining, MLB
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Mets get routed by the Nationals, and where all of this is going
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Why Can't the Twins Spend Like the Padres? - Twins - Twins Daily
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Fernando Tatis Jr. And The San Diego Padres Show Market Size Doesn't Matter In Spending Money
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Sammon & Britton] How the $445 million Mets crashed and burned : r/baseball
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