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azdsnd
It’ll be interesting to see what happens with KJ. His salary last year was just $2.35MM, so while his play does merit a raise to $5MM, that’s also over a 100% jump. And ’09 was so bad for him (BABIP can be cruel…).
Tim Dierkes
Yes…not sure what approach KJ’s agent will take. He can ignore the raise concept entirely and just explain how KJ is worth whatever amount. Could be risky though.
azdsnd
This is true, but then how much do you ask for – his fair market value is so far above even that $5MM number. Do they try to argue for a percentage of his fair market value? And if so, how do you keep that from being totally arbitrary?
It just seems like if there was any chance of this ever working, it would have been done by now, right? After all, players are routinely ripped-off through the arbitration process. It also seems like an awfully slippery slope to start traversing on with the basic foundations of the arbitration process for the sake of one strange case.
Something tells me that avoiding the arbitration process altogether could be the best decision for all involved – it’s the odd cases that can become the ugly cases. Can we bring back JByrnes and his arbitration phobia as GM for a day?
We’re already paying him through 2015… (/cue depression)
Tim Dierkes
Oh it’s definitely been done by now. I am still learning a lot about the history of arbitration over the last 10-15 years or so. It wouldn’t be traversing the foundation of the arb process to take a guy 45 days short of free agency and draw comparisons to guys who signed FA deals. It’s within the rules.
azdsnd
Good to know – clearly, the arb process is a little ahead of me at the moment. The scary thing though is that from there you can argue that KJ was nearly twice as valuable as O-Dog last year (if KJ’s 6.0 FanGraphs’ WAR and Hudson’s 3.1 FanGraphs’ WAR are to be trusted). So if you translate that literally to salary, you’re talking about historic third-arb-year raises.
Tim Dierkes
You and I can argue that…but I don’t think WAR would be used by either side in an arb hearing.
qudjy1
I thought Saunders was 3rd year..
qudjy1
Crap – NM – you are right -Saunders is 2nd year.
The_Porcupine
I like Drew and Montero. Keep Saunders if you want, but he doesn’t do anything for me. Everyone else can be nontendered.
azdsnd
Carrasco and Kelly Johnson? Carrasco has had three straight seasons with OPS+ numbers over 110. And KJ was worth 6.0 freaking FanGraphs’ WAR last year!
The_Porcupine
Sorry, meant to include Johnson in my like list.
Brandon
Here we go- Keep; Drew, Montero, Carasco, Johnson. Saunders ( I guess)
Let Boyer, Ojeda and Church go.
GO DBACKS! cant wait till next year!