Dodgers starter Brett Anderson has reached another performance bonus threshold tonight, tweets Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register. Anderson will earn another $350K for throwing 170 innings. He’s triggered $1.65MM in bonuses in addition to his $10MM base salary.
Here’s more on Anderson and baseball’s western divisions:
- Anderson would like to return to L.A. next season, reports Mark Saxon of ESPN. The club is also reportedly interested in re-signing the southpaw. Anderson is in the midst of a rough outing at Coors Field tonight, but that’s hardly an uncommon occurrence. Including his performance through three innings this evening, Anderson has a 3.77 ERA, 5.87 K/9, 2.41 BB/9, and a 66% ground ball rate over 171.2 innings. He’s just four innings short of his career high (set in 2009). Between improved health and success, Anderson should be a popular target this offseason. The 27-year-old could potentially use Brandon McCarthy’s four-year, $48MM contract as a comparable. McCarthy was entering his age 31 season when he signed that deal, but he was arguably coming off a stronger platform season. MLBTR’s Charlie Wilmoth also considers McCarthy and Pirates lefty Francisco Liriano as possible precedents.
- Josh Byrnes is a top candidate for a role in the Angels front office, confirms Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register (via tweet). However, Los Angeles is not looking to hire a president of baseball operations. Whoever they sign will be the GM. You can learn more about Byrnes and the other Angels’ GM candidates here.
- If the Tigers hadn’t retained manager Brad Ausmus, he would have been a top candidate for the Padres opening, writes Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Ausmus debuted with the Padres way back in 1993. He played in parts of four seasons for San Diego before later moving on to the Tigers, Astros, and Dodgers. While it’s a moot point now, it seems likely that Ausmus would have landed somewhere on both feet.
Players earning their performance bonuses is always nice to see.
I’ll never understand this idea that local media/writers, have regarding the Padres hiring a manager or a coach or for that matter, a player, “because they have San Diego connections”.
no one can predict what PRELLER will do from one minute to the next, so it makes more sense to STOP saying, someone like Ausmus “would be a top candidate for the manager’s job” in SD. How would someone know something like that?
if you ask me, going beyond the call of duty to hire people who live here, have played here, etc, is part of the problem with this franchise.
its time for some new blood..and it wouldnt break my heart, if Preller made something of a clean sweep, and hired a manager who has NEVER played here, and would want his own coaching staff.
we’re supposed to hire Ausmus to manage here?…why?….they got swept in the LDS last season. And a lot like Black in 2007, he inherited a team that was basically made for the playoffs. All he had to do was to NOT upset the apple cart, and let the players play.
If the Padres want to get where they’re trying to go, quicker, then they should hire a skipper that has “been there and done it”….why risk another managerial hire, that is even remotely questionable?..