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Jimenez and Ervin Santana Getty ImagesJimenez and Santana have
received only moderate interest due to draft-pick compensation.
Drew and Morales have each suffered horrific leg injuries in
recent seasons, and the medical fallout is detailed in the
reports all teams can access. Santana has had elbow trouble, and
given all that we know about predicting injuries (read Russell
Carlton's work on the topic here), some teams undoubtedly are
wary of the possibility of a breakdown for a 31-year-old
pitcher.  Cruz was suspended for his connection to Biogenesis in
2013, and given his age of 33 and the fact that he was a late
bloomer -- he never had more than 350 at-bats in a season until
he was 28 -- has led some executives to wonder, quite naturally,
what role the performance-enhancers may have had in his success
and what kind of player he is without them.  And Jimenez is
seemingly a clone of A.J. Burnett: Spectacular in those periods
he is at his best, a b