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Akinori Iwamura Is More Valuable to the Pirates Than Jesse Chavez Is

Posted: 4th November 2009 by Andrew Kaufman in MLB
Akinori Iwamura isn't going to make the Pirates a winning baseball team. He's a nice player and a viable starting second baseman, provided he is healthy. His bat plays well at the positionùhis .354 career on-base percentage is actually significantly better than Freddy Sanchez', although he does not have as much gap powerùand he has an average glove for a second baseman. But he's not exactly a world-beater. He's 30 years old ...