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If they do decline, whatever team signs them has to surrender a draft pick.
If they sign Gordon before Sunday, the Yankees will surrender a draft pick.
These players are more likely to find a new team more quickly because teams already know they would not have to surrender a draft pick to sign them.
Another team wanting to sign a free agent might not know until then whether they would have to surrender a draft pick to sign that player.
Ibanez bats left-handed, and the Angels would not need to surrender a draft pick to sign him.
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That allows the Yankees to sign Sheffield to a three-year contract this week without surrendering a draft pick to Atlanta.
If the Braves do not offer Sheffield arbitration, the Yankees can sign him without surrendering a draft pick.
And would they really be willing to surrender a first-round draft pick as free-agent compensation in order to sign Bourn?
Any other team that signs Sheffield before then, or after if he is offered arbitration, would surrender a first-round draft pick as compensation.
That has left Cashman as the front man, even if he is not always the decider, as was the case when the Steinbrenners annulled his vow not to surrender a first-round draft pick for any free agent besides Lee.
When the antiwar Jesuit Daniel Berrigan went underground in 1970, refusing to surrender after his conviction for a draft board raid in Catonsville, Md., he secretly made his way to Boston, where local activists hid him for a time.
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