Raul Ibanez Released!

[tennischmp]

F'n ridiculous

 

750.000.000 for reaching 100 ABs?

 

Man, he owes Scioscia big time. Guess it makes sense now, huh?

It sure make sense. Scioscia was getting 50% of those incentives under the table

Edited June 21, 2014 by tennischmp

[beatlesrule]

Glorious...glorious day.  Freaking love it.  Cron full time DH? Some kind of platoony situation with Cron Green Cowgill Calhoun? Who cares...this is fantastic.  

[stormngt]

Sorry but that isn't a good record Dipoto

@JeffFletcherOCR: 4 FA's signed by #Angels in last 18 mos released or lost to injury before end of contract: Ibañez, Blanton, Madson, Burnett.

[stormngt]

Don't platoon Calhoun. Too many on this board will want a lynching if that happens

Glorious...glorious day. Freaking love it. Cron full time DH? Some kind of platoony situation with Cron Green Cowgill Calhoun? Who cares...this is fantastic.

[stormngt]

Ibanez was a low cost gamble. I have no problem with the signing. It just took them about a month too long to release him

Need to improve on these moves JD. Blanton was bad from the start and Ibanez was very shaky to start.

[Homebrewer]

Ibanez was a low cost gamble. I have no problem with the signing. It just took them about a month too long to release him

 

Nothing low cost about it. It cost plenty.

Additional costs have been the games lost and valuable at bats for Cron, who could have really used those at bats, and a month at AAA for Green who was hitting .350.

Nothing low cost about it.

[Angel Oracle]

He slumped since the 2013 ASB. That plus being in his early 40s = retirement time.

Class act, but also with nothing left in the tank

[Agalloch]

YES! YES!!! **** YES!!!! 

 

I like Raul and always have but I'm glad to see the FO doing what needs to be done! 

[Redondo]

Ibanez was a low cost gamble. I have no problem with the signing. It just took them about a month too long to release him

 

 

Since when is $3.75 million for half a season low cost?

[RallyMo]

And hits .310 w/ 15 HRS down the stretch

... and Butcher gets blamed by the Failos.

[Docwaukee]

Needed to be done. 

 

Team now has a ton of flexibility

 

Maybe they could get a decent reliever for Cowgill. 

[RallyMo]

Since when is $3.75 million for half a season low cost?

Since everything is relative to baseball and it's not 1938.

[Dreams]

Seems like the only way to prevent Scioscia from starting our worst players is to release them or send them to AAA

[Vegas Halo Fan]

This organization treats all these aging veterans like complete crap.

 

Yeah, it sucks to get 500 AB.

[Homebrewer]

I assume putting Hamilton behind Trout tonight is asking for too much in one day.

guess not..

[AngelsLongBall]

Goodnight, sweet prince. We barely knew thee

[Bruce Nye]

I remember that time he got a base hit. 

[jshep]

I remember that time he got a base hit.

Pics or it didn't happen

[RallyMo]

I remember that time he helped create an epic Facebook thread.

[bloodbrother]

He would have started tonight vs the RHP instead of CJ Cron

 

perfect timing by the team!

[Taylor]

He would have started tonight vs the RHP instead of CJ Cron

 

perfect timing by the team!

 

CJ will be benched for the next three games.

[Guest]

What will we all bitch about now that Ibañez is released?

So glad this dude is gone. Thanks for the 1-2 big hits, I guess

[NrM]

What will we all bitch about now that Ibañez is released?

So glad this dude is gone. Thanks for the 1-2 big hits, I guess

 

always have pujols for the next 7 years

[ten ocho recon scout]

I don't feel bad. At all.

I guess his PAs were not looking as good of late? Remarkable how long this club stood by him.

thats not accurate YOT. Sosh said just the other day he had a really good at bat.

....in april.

[jshep]

Don't know how to post it direct from my phone, but Raul issues a press release

https://twitter.com/jefffletcherocr/status/480579792597970944

Too bad it didn't work out, cause that dude is a class act