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November 14, 2012

Transaction Analysis

Cubs Sign a Dusty Baker

by R.J. Anderson

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Signed RHP Scott Baker to a one-year deal worth $5.5 million with an additional $1.5 million in incentives. [11/13]

The Baker signing continues a theme begun last offseason by Jed Hoyer when he inked David DeJesus and Paul Maholm. Like those two before him, Baker is a veteran hoping to rebound: not from a bad season but from a missed season. Baker lost a two-year fight against a screaming elbow and underwent Tommy John surgery in April. The standard timetable from surgery to return is about 12 months nowadays, leaving Baker’s status for the beginning of the season in doubt.

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