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sufferforsnakes
Wow, McAllister ends up making more than Otero? Not even close when it comes to effectiveness.
rrieders
bullpen role and playing time, not effectiveness drives reliever arbitration salaries.
Steve Adams
Their effectiveness doesn’t have a ton to do with it. McAllister is eligible for the second time, so he’s already working from a base of $900K for this raise. Otero’s raise was based off a slightly above league-minimum salary in 2016.
If they’d both been making the same money in 2016 and were in the same service class, Otero would’ve earned more than McAllister.
chesteraarthur
I like this format way more than separate posts for each teams couple of players that avoid arbitration.
Dookie Howser, MD
Agreed! If a flood comes in, it might even be nice to divide this post up by team or division
chesteraarthur
It’s much easier to have them all in one place so that you don’t have to scroll past 9 posts about marginal players avoiding arbitration. Having one post that is updated with who has agreed just makes a lot more sense, imo.
rxbrgr
Why wasn’t Tim Beckham given a arbitration projection earlier this offseason?
TheMichigan
My guess was that he wasn’t recalled up in September they just forgot about him
gnome
Have you guys ever thought about including your projections with a salary[projection] ‘ instead of writing it all out. For instance, Tanner Roark agrees to avoid arbitration with a 4.2MM [6.2MM] salary
chisoxjuan
They must really believe in Gonzalez to agree to 6. He’s not done enough to be worth a good prospect in return value, but if he shows improvement towards a #3-4 potential they’ll get that & more. First he has to win the #5 spot.
I expect Putnam to definitely show improvement & exceed his new value.
pepesilvia
Ill be honest i really don’t understand this whole arbitration process. Why they need to involve lawyers and eveything is beyond me. If i owned a team id give my players a contract if they dont like it theres the door. I certainly wouldn’t be trowing money away foolishly on lawyers and accountants ill tell you that much.
start_wearing_purple
Then you have no concept of Capitalism and the rules of MLB.
Let’s say you have a great player who the market says should get 5 million dollars this year (Despite the fact that he’s your youngest and most valuable player and would get more if he was on the open market) and yet he’s demanding 6 or 7 million. You let him go out of monetary principle… then 29 other teams are going to swarm in and have a bidding war over this player.
The 6 year process before free agency keeps contracts smaller then the 3 years of arbitration and pending free agency makes sure players don’t go on strike.
Your way of thinking was known as the Reserve Clause.
pepesilvia
Very simple id nake a pact with the other owners and not pay these guys. I wouldnt pay a player over the league minimum which i think is way too much money anyway. They dont like it go work a construction job or roof some houses. Ill lay u odds they come crawling back.
lyle
Collusion is not allowed in baseball.
pepesilvia
How could they prove it.. they have done it before they all stood together to get jose canseco out of baseball even though he could hit the ball 500 feet
stymeedone
Actually, collusion isn’t allowed in any industry (US). Great way to get sued, and the player’s association happens to have the lawyers to do just that.
wayneroo
They tried that once before and got caught in the mid-80s.. I doubt they’d be stupid enough to try it again. Although…
jay-2
I like Gonzalez and what he was able to accomplish last year for my Sox..but honestly would have rather seen that $6mill go to Tyson Ross.
stymeedone
Yes, it’s so much fun watching a player on the disabled list.
WARrior
Just a small writing comment, I was initially confused by the use of the word “broken” when the article said, “Dozens of agreements have been broken…” Did you mean ‘brokered?’ Not a big deal; but at first, I thought there were dozens of newly cut-loose free agents! That’d be quite a big news day for the offseason.