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Josh Hamilton knows he never was the player the Los Angeles Angels wanted and expected him to be. ''I worked my butt off to be that guy this year going into this season for the Angels,'' Hamilton said. ''They just didn't want that to happen for some reason.'' The Angels traded Hamilton back to AL West rival Texas, a deal completed Monday less than halfway through a $125 million, five-year contract for which Los Angeles will pay most of the remaining $80 million the slugger is owed. ''I've been working in the cage and doing all the things that I need to do to get prepared for a season and feel really good as far as my mental state of mind and my physical well-being,'' Hamilton said during a news conference in Texas before flying to Arizona.
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