The Rockies have agreed to a one-year deal with outfielder Brandon Barnes to avoid arbitration, the club announced. Terms of the deal were not announced.
MLBTR projected Barnes, 29, to command $1.2MM in arbitration in his first season of eligibility. But as I wrote in assessing Colorado’s offseason outlook, he seemed like a reasonably plausible non-tender candidate given his recent struggles.
Barnes was demoted for part of the 2015 campaign and ended up contributing only a .251/.314/.341 slash over 281 plate appearances. Given that he benefited from playing at Coors Field, that translated to a meager 68 OPS+. He also hasn’t drawn terribly favorable ratings from defensive metrics.
Met him once. Complete jerk.
That’s funny. He’s generally known as one of the great guys in the game, gives tons of time to charity. Not much of a player.
Where did you ever get that he is a jerk? He’s far from a jerk, he’s probably the nicest guy you will ever run into in baseball. If you don’t know what your talking about about, or if you’ve never met the guy, then maybe I would shut your trap!! Another thing him not being a good ball player are you kidding? It’s just the Rockies have never played him to his potential. Barnes is a beast in the outfield and probably, one of the best outfielders there are. Barnes hitting would be better if Walt would quit taking him out, every year around June, when he’s batting in the 300’s if you noticed, the last two years Walt has sat him around that time, when his average was high!! Then put him in every other week or two and there goes his average!! Rockies suck that way, they don’t know how to play their players correctly. I think he should go to a different team that would play him they way he needs to play!!
Far from a jerk !!!! The guy is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet ! If you ask all his team mates, he’s got the biggest heart on the team ! On and off the field. His defense is like no other , This man is hungry, you can tell by the way he hustles on the field ! As for his bat, give him time at the plate , he will produce !!! Just like the guys making 5Mil a year !