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Paul Sullivan: All eyes are on the Cubs and their money as the general manager meetings begin Monday

A free-agent freeze dominated the baseball landscape until weeks before the start of the 2018 season, causing many to wonder whether the smell of collusion was in the air.

And with the likes of Yu Darvish, Jake Arrieta, J.D. Martinez, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas among the ranks of unsigned free agents in mid-January, there was good reason to wonder if the game finally was clamping down on outrageous spending.

"I think what you're seeing is a lot of teams out there would rather have dry powder a

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