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If Gillies is bigger, stronger, and faster than Carrera, well of course the Phillies are as old-school as it gets ... hard to imagine an old-school scout looking at the two players and preferring Carrera...
From a James standpoint, that gaudy .441 OBP is of more interest (in the abstract) than physical tools ... in Moneyball there's a long section on Billy Beane's efforts to pry away a very young Kevin Youkilis from the Expos, simply because of the OBP...