sabernomics.com - 12/16/2008
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The Philadelphia Phillies unceremoniously dumped Pat Burrell last week by not offering him arbitration and replacing his roster spot with Raul Ibanez . Ibanez has reportedly agreed to a three-year $31.5 million contract ($10.5 million/year) with the Phillies. The differences between Ibanez and ...
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Back before the winter meetings started and there
were all kinds of trades and free agent signings...
to analyze that took up all of our writing here, we were all ridiculously excited about the addition of UZR data the FanGraphs statistics section. Now ...
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myteamrivals.typepad.com - 12/17/2008
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The Phillies announced yesterday that Raul Ibanez has
“officially” been signed to a 3-year, $31.5 million dollar...
contract. Ibanez stated that he was encouraged by former teammate Jamie Moyer to come to Philadelphia. Ibanez replaces 9-year veteran Pat Burrell in left field.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Ibanez Replacing Burrell Is A Good Thing
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Sabernomics: Ibanez Versus Burrell
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Sabernomics: Ibanez Versus Burrell I’m pretty sure this was part the Bobby Czyz/Bruce “The Mouse” Strauss undercard at the Duvast Totawa Ice World. The differences between Ibanez and Burrell are subtle: Ibanez will be 37 next year and is left-handed, while Burrell is 32 and right-handed. They are alike in that they are both poor-fielding outfielders with good bats, both with OPS+ consistently in the 120s during the past few seasons. With Ibanez, the Phillies will get output similar to what Burrell gave the team. Given his age, injury may be a bit more likely for Ibabez, but I ...
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