In all of the hustle and bustle this week, you may have missed the Earth-shattering announcement coming out of Citizens Bank Park: your Philadelphia Phillies have signed 34-year old pitcher Kevin Correia to a major league contract.
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Correia is basically what you would see if you were to look up the term “replacement level” in the baseball dictionary. With a career 4.59 ERA, 87 ERA+, and 3.7 rWAR in just over 1,400 innings, he has been neither outstanding (though he did get an All-Star appearance in 2011), nor has he been horrendous.