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NEW YORK -- November is supposed to be a slow month on the baseball calendar, and in many ways it is. Top free agents rarely sign in November, preferring to let their markets take shape over the course of weeks. Only minor trades tend to occur.

Yet plenty of news does happen in the month following the World Series, as the Mets proved during a busy first week of the offseason. I’d like to use this newsletter space to highlight three of the more notable news items to come out of this week, putting my spin on what they mean.

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