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As Major League Baseball's winter meetings neared their end Wednesday, the Texas Rangers were holding up everything.
The most important team at the meetings in Nashville, Tenn., wasn't the flush-with-cash Los Angeles Dodgers, the desperate-to-compete Seattle Mariners or another franchise outside the Lone Star State. Team executives in both the American and National leagues were waiting on the Rangers before other pieces could fall.
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