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Raul Ibanez Note

Jayson Stark:

• Want a nominee for the most hotly pursued free agent under the radar? How about Raul Ibanez? He'll turn 37 in June, but we've counted at least a dozen teams that have expressed some degree of interest in him.

That group: Mets, Phillies, Cubs, Cardinals, Nationals, Braves, Royals, Rays, Blue Jays, Rangers (if they can't re-sign Milton Bradley), Angels (if Teixeira, Juan Rivera and Garret Anderson all go elsewhere) and Ibanez's old team, the Mariners. The Mets, Cubs, Cardinals, Braves and Mariners have him at the top of their position-player shopping lists.

He won't be looking for any eight-year deals. And when we asked an official of one team what makes Ibanez so attractive, he gushed: "Character. Proven run producer. In better shape than a lot of 25-year-olds. And he'll play hard every day, every game, every second he has the uniform on."

You don't say...

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Well he better be ready to play DH only if he comes here

Watching him in RF every day may make me smash all my stuff

by joeybw on Nov 20, 2008 2:37 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

You putz

You just made me laugh out loud on a conference call at a very inopportune moment. If I lose my job it is your fault!

by Jason Collette on Nov 20, 2008 2:47 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

That was a longass run into a wall

I wouldn’t fault him for that. Remember last year when all-world Left Fielder Carl Crawford caught a foul ball with one out and a man on 3rd in the 8th inning of a tie game. Poo happens.

Anyway, as I was lying in the puddle, I think I may have found
a way for us to get Bonds and Griffey, and we wouldn't have to give up
that much.

~George Costanza~

by Sandy Kazmir on Nov 20, 2008 3:08 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Some of those teams need to stay as far away from Raul as possible.

any team that can’t give him a majority-DH job.

Although, Raul to the Cubs would be entertaining. Alfonso Soriano, Raul Ibanez (remember, one has to play RF, who will it be), would make for a lot of entertaining web gems.

I know that's a pisser, baby.

by Blicks on Nov 20, 2008 4:00 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

You guys need to check out the "Bad Angle" one as well.

There’s a post over there that was posted around the end of the season that has many good M’s ‘highlights’ that I think includes a few Ibanez ‘plays’

by seamariners85 on Nov 20, 2008 4:33 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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