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What can you say about a 32-year-old former Dodger whose contract was sold to Japan? That he was useful and occasionally brilliant? That he loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles and playing seven positions?
Mariners Musings has the news of the next chapter in the career of Jolbert Cabrera, amid a larger post about Seattle's signing of shortstop Pokey Reese for something in the neighborhood of $2 million to sidekick Adrian Beltre.
"When a Japanese team approached the Mariners about Cabrera," writes Larry LaRue of the Tacoma News-Tribune, "it was clear they planned to offer him a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract – and the Mariners saw a way to save salary and make a popular player happier."
Not that it matters in Los Angeles, but does Reese's fielding ability make him a better player than Cabrera?
Age: Reese 31, Cabrera 32
2004 OPS+ (100 is average): Reese 46, Cabrera 87
2004 EQA (.260 is average): Reese .204, Cabrera .256
2004 VORP: Reese (-7.6), Cabrera 7.5
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