Soriano and his position.

[Clapp]

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No, wrong, 100% wrong, again. Players don't go from being all star caliber players to being totally worthless in a blink of an eye. There's usually a trend, a gradual decline, not someone falling off the cliff performance-wise from one season to the next, that does not happen with any regularity.
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That's what I tried to tell everybody all offseason about Raul Ibanez.
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Yeah, but, like, what he's doing is quite unusual.
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Right but he's not going to go from a terrific hitter to complete crap in a year or two. He has plenty left.