Via Bleeding Blue and Teal, Raul Ibanez will decline arbitration today. Blue and Teal is looking forward to the draft picks:

It would greatly benefit Seattle if the Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins and/or Toronto Blue Jays would throw their names back into the Ibanez hat. All three have been connected to Raul this offseason, and represent the 17th, 18th and 20th picks in the draft, which is as good as Seattle could get considering the first 16 picks are protected.