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The Associated Press on Tuesday released the salaries of all ballplayers on major league rosters to start the season, which then set off the obvious but entertaining exercise of compiling 25 man rosters of the most over priced and the most under valued, or bargain basement players, in the game today. Assistant sports editor Ross Priest and I were the only two knuckleheads available to take it on. What made the task challenging was to come up realistic rosters comprised of  nine starters (including a DH - that was Priest's idea, he's got a loftier title than mine so I went with it)) and a starting pitcher, at least four other starters, a relief corp, including a closer; and bench players, one of which had to be a second catcher. At $4.5 mil., how Jason Kendall can be left off an all-overpaid roster the way Priest left him off his, I don't know.   While on Gagne we agree, we disagreed strongly on A-Rod, but the rest of our starters were close to being the same....
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