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Matt Holliday, who was the biggest free agent available, is no longer looking for a team. He has decided to re-sign long term with the St. Louis Cardinals.

- Holliday and the Cards have agreed to a deal worth about $120 million for 7 years.  This will keep him in a Cardinal uniform through 2016, when he will be 36 years old.

- Holliday batted .353 with St. Louis in 63 games after batting just .286 in 93 games with Oakland. He drove in 55 runs with 13 home runs with the Cards, finishing the season with 109 and 24 respectively.

- Holliday was traded to the Cardinals before the deadline from the A’s, who had brought him in during the previous off-season in a trade with the Colorado Rockies.

- Holliday, who turns 29 in 10 days, is a career .318 batter who has hit 29 home runs and 112 RBI on a 162 game average over his career.