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"I told everyone I love playing here," Texeira said. "I love this team. I love Bobby Cox. He's an amazing man. He's an amazing manager. When my career is over, I'll be able to tell my kids and grandkids that I played for Bobby Cox, I played with Chipper Jones, I played with John Smoltz and Tom Glavine, and those are things that I'm going to be proud of."

When told that Teixeira indicated he had envisioned playing the rest of his career with the Braves, Wren revealed that the Braves made a substantial contractual offer that was declined during Spring Training.

With Teixeira's offensive and defensive attributes, there's certainly reason to believe his agent, Scott Boras, can land him an annual salary that exceeds $20 million during this winter's free-agent market.

"We offered a very aggressive multiyear contract that would have made him one of the highest-paid players in the game, and it was not accepted," Wren said. "We knew from that discussion that we were not going to be able to sign him, and we didn't feel like it would be best for the club to go into the offseason just receiving [compensatory] Draft picks when we could get established Major League players to fit our plan going forward."

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