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			<title><![CDATA[A deep closer market, but takers?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...Mike Gonzalez (No. 17), Rafael Soriano (No. 20), Billy Wagner (No. 24), Ryota Igarashi (No. 26), Rafael Betancourt (No. 34), Jose Valverde (No. 37), Fernando Rodney (No. 43), and Brandon Lyon (No. 47) all...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 19, 2009 05:11:37 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The most popular free agents]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The free-agent signing period begins four days from now, and we know that Matt Holliday, John Lackey and Jason Bay are going to be paid the most money...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 16, 2009 02:05:57 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rockies decline $5M option on RHP Betancourt]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Rockies have declined a $5 million option on right-hander Rafael Betancourt, a key setup man as the Rockies won the NL wild-card race.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 13, 2009 09:59:44 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Type A positive (and negative)]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...fit with the Cardinals, Cubs, Mets or any number of teams. There was bad news for: Rafael Betancourt. He is a Type A free agent whom Colorado is clearly angling to keep, and because...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 10, 2009 01:59:20 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kiss 'Em Goodbye: Colorado Rockies]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Insider and Baseball Prospectus collaborate to dissect the demise of the 2009 Colorado Rockies, who, just like in 2007, were left for dead, came back, made the playoffs and -- well, unlike in 2007, they didn't get so far. Now what? Let's investigate.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 14, 2009 01:13:09 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cook outduels Hamels as Rockies nip Phillies, tie series]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yorvit Torrealba hit a two-run homer, Aaron Cook pitched effectively into the sixth and the Rockies beat Cole Hamels and the Phillies 5-4 to even their NL playoff series at 1.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 08, 2009 13:29:36 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BP: Cardinals boast strongest postseason 'pen]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After a close analysis of all of MLB's playoff-bound pens, Baseball Prospectus finds that the St. Louis Cardinals stand above all others.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 04, 2009 10:14:01 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Law: Scouting the Colorado Rockies]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Rockies made a run for the wild card and at the Dodgers in the NL West, but it had more to do with their young talent than the firing of manager Clint Hurdle and the installation of Jim Tracy.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 04, 2009 13:46:58 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Type A free agent club]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...along with Matt Holliday, and it was unanimous that the Red Sox will offer him arbitration. Rafael Betancourt, Rockies -- Earning $3.35 million this season with a $5.4 million club option for 2010...]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 02, 2009 02:15:29 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Baseball Tonight Clubhouse: Little October relief]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...game against the Padres on Thursday in which he threw 11 balls and only four strikes. Rafael Betancourt allowed runs in consecutive outings for the first time since his first two appearances this season...]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 27, 2009 11:49:08 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hundley's homer makes difference in Padres' defeat of Rockies]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nick Hundley homered to start the comeback and drove in the tiebreaking run with an eighth-inning single off Rafael Betancourt, and the San Diego Padres dealt the NL wild card-leading Colorado Rockies a disheartening 5-4 loss Thursday night.]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 24, 2009 19:32:45 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Cy Young cases for Greinke and King Felix]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This time of year, teams begin to include information in their media dispatches about their various candidates for major awards. The AL Cy Young Award...]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 18, 2009 02:03:00 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rockies-Diamondbacks Preview]]></title>
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			<pubDate>September 17, 2009 09:16:10 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[De La Rosa dominates as Rockies build wild-card lead]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jorge De La Rosa dominated and the Rockies held off a Giants rally in the ninth on Wednesday.]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 16, 2009 20:21:41 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Torrealba keeps Rockies two behind Dodgers in NL West]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yorvit Torrealba hit a three-run double in the ninth inning off closer Heath Bell to lift the Colorado Rockies to a 4-1 win over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 11, 2009 20:45:57 PDT EST</pubDate>
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