Raul Ibanez tagged him for a two-run homer in his return to Yankee Stadium.
Raul Ibanez hit a two-run homer for Seattle in his return to Yankee Stadium.
Nick Swisher, Raul Ibanez, Russell Martin and Eric Chavez left to sign elsewhere.
They found out Seattle Mariners slugger Raul Ibanez had Spanish grandparents, but Ibanez turned down an offer to play.
Postseason star Raul Ibanez left, as did starting catcher Russell Martin, popular right fielder Nick Swisher and valuable Eric Chavez.
Yankee outfielder Raul Ibanez gave chase but was unable to catch it.
So are Russell Martin, Raul Ibanez, Eric Chavez and Rafael Soriano.
Swisher's departure came a day after postseason home-run hero Raul Ibanez agreed to a one-year deal with the Seattle Mariners, leaving the Yankees to search elsewhere for a designated hitter.
In the fourth, he ran into foul territory on the third base side to make a basket catch on Raul Ibanez's low popup but said that didn't figure into his back problem.
His stay in New York reached its nadir during these playoffs, when the highest paid player in baseball was routinely replaced by 40-year old Raul Ibanez in the late innings of tight games.
Hughes was knocked out in a seven-run first inning Wednesday night, giving up a grand slam to Raul Ibanez, and the New York Yankees went on to a 12-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners.
Add in the wins Rodriguez's loss should cost and you're still only around four a figure near the improvement you might expect from having Brett Gardner rather than Raul Ibanez and Co. in left field.
New York hit a team-record 245 homers last year but Nick Swisher, Raul Ibanez, Russell Martin and Eric Chavez left as free agents, and Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson will start the season on the disabled list.
With the Yankees trailing Orioles by a run in the ninth inning of a pivotal Game 3 of the ALDS, manager Joe Girardi called Alex Rodriguez back to the bench and inserted pinch hitter Raul Ibanez in his place.
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He was ejected in the second inning by first base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt for arguing at plate umpire Greg Gibson from the dugout on a called third strike against Raul Ibanez, who had homered three times in the first two games of the series.
Normally, it would be easy to dismiss all this as an early-season fluke, but there is a pattern here: trading for Nick Swisher in late 2008, trading for Kerry Wood in mid-2010, signing Russell Martin and Freddy Garcia before 2011, signing Raul Ibanez and re-signing Eric Chavez in early 2012, trading for Ichiro Suzuki in mid-2012.
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