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- Updated: December 7, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Is there a realistic pathway for the Dodgers, while desiring to reduce payroll, to still re-sign both of their top free agents — third baseman Justin Turner and closer Kenley Jansen?
“Tough question to answer,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said on Tuesday at the Winter Meetings.
“I think the free-agent market almost always plays out to the point of doing more than you rationally want to do. If you’re always rational about free agents, you will finish third on every free agent. So, there’s some element that is market-based that makes it hard to answer. In a rational mind, yes, it can work. Doesn’t mean it can play out in a rational way.”
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So, the Dodgers continue to talk to both free agents, with the expectation of signing maybe one, more likely the locally based Turner, fueled in part by media suggestions that his market is less than …
