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Manny and Derek Lowe are available this close to spring training? That bothers Dayn Perry, who tells us where they should go. 

The Yanks now have four of the highest-paid players in baseball. 

What do Manny and Chase Utley have in common? Find out as we look back on baseball's strangest performances of 2008. 

--The Cardinals still are showing interest in free agent LHPs Randy Wolf and Oliver Perez. 

The Cardinals exceeded the expectations of most by winning 86 games but they fell short in the second half when their depth was not sufficient to overcome the loss of OF Rick Ankiel (lower abdominal strain) and C Yadier Molina (bruised left thigh) and the 

Aaron Miles and Felipe Lopez got much of the time at second base for the Cardinals in the latter part of the 2008 season, but both are now gone. 

--The Cardinals still are showing interest in free agent LHPs Randy Wolf and Oliver Perez. 

The Cardinals exceeded the expectations of most by winning 86 games but they fell short in the second half when their depth was not sufficient to overcome the loss of OF Rick Ankiel (lower abdominal strain) and C Yadier Molina (bruised left thigh) and the 

Aaron Miles and Felipe Lopez got much of the time at second base for the Cardinals in the latter part of the 2008 season, but both are now gone. 

--The Cardinals still are showing interest in free agent LHPs Randy Wolf and Oliver Perez. 

The Cardinals exceeded the expectations of most by winning 86 games but they fell short in the second half when their depth was not sufficient to overcome the loss of OF Rick Ankiel (lower abdominal strain) and C Yadier Molina (bruised left thigh) and the 

Aaron Miles and Felipe Lopez got much of the time at second base for the Cardinals in the latter part of the 2008 season, but both are now gone. 

BECAUSE WE WERE too cheap to buy nice champagne for New Year's Eve, let's pop the cork on these hot topics from the sports supermarket: 

It was a disappointing, frustrating and often sad 2008 for St.