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Chicago Cubs GM Jim Hendry almost made another free agent mistake on Wednesday. Thankfully, money means more to some players than the chance to win. Former Pittsburgh closer Matt Capps, who was on the Cubs radar as a potential setup man for closer Carlos Marmol, agreed to a one-year deal with the Washington Nationals. Capps will reportedly getáa base salary of $3.5 million, witháanother $425K in performance incentives built into the deal. Adding Capps could have been the final piece in the puzzle that gets Hendry fired if he had taken the money in Chicago. Hendry has had a really bad last 14 months, and that's being conservative. He dealt a popular, productive player in Mark DeRosa and replaced him with one of the least popular players in Cubs history, Milton Bradley, and arg ...

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