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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Updated: December 2, 5:14 PM ET
The numbers don't lie

By Randall Polliard
Special to Page 2

Baseball's free agency market is officially open. Teams are deciding who they should target. And a new trend among major league GMs is relying on statistics, like OPS (a combination of on-base percentage and slugging percentage) in evaluating players.

But are they missing something? We've come up with a few new stats GMs should be aware of this shopping season.

Click on the arrow below to see Page 2's guide for GMs:

Randall Polliard is a sports cartoonist for the Seattle Times.


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