Quite frankly, there were too many arbitration agreements today to reasonably stuff into one post. So here’s a rundown of the National League players that have avoided arbitration on smaller deals (American League deals here). You can see all of the arbitration “action” thus far in a sortable, filterable format by checking out MLBTR’s 2017 Arbitration Tracker. All projections referenced in this post are courtesy of MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz:
- Wily Peralta and Carlos Torres have agreed to one-year deals, according to the team’s Twitter account. Peralta will earn $4.275MM (compared to $4.4MM projection), per Heyman. Torres was projected to make $2MM, but will get slightly more at $2.175MM, per Chris Cotillo of SB Nation (via Twitter).
- Reliever George Kontos gets $1.75MM from the Giants, Heyman tweets. He had projected at $1.7MM.
- The Diamondbacks also reached agreement with lefty Patrick Corbin, righty Randall Delgado, and catcher Chris Herrmann, per Jack Magruder of Fan Rag (links to Twitter). Delgado gets $1.775MM and Herrmann receives $937,500. As for Corbin, he’ll take home $3.95MM, per Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic (via Twitter), which falls a bit shy of his $4.2MM projection.
- Infielder Eduardo Nunez will receive $4.2MM from the Giants, per Jon Heyman of Fan Rag (via Twitter). San Francisco has also reached agreement with lefty Will Smith, per Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle (via Twitter). He’ll receive $2.5MM, just over his $2.3MM projection, Heyman tweets.
- The Phillies settled at $4.2MM with righty Jeanmar Gomez, per Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer (via Twitter). He falls just a big shy of his $4.6MM projection.
- The Cardinals have announced arb deals with Trevor Rosenthal and Kevin Siegrist. Rosenthal receives $6.4MM, per Heyman (via Twitter), which is just $100K over his projection. Siegrist projected at $1.9MM, but his salary has yet to be reported.
- Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom have each avoided arbitration with the Mets. Harvey gets $5.125MM in his second arb year, per James Wagner of the New York Times (via Twitter). Meanwhile, deGrom will receive $4.05MM in his first trip through the arb process, per ESPNNewYork.com’s Adam Rubin (via Twitter). New York has also agreed with lefty Josh Edgin, Rubin tweets, though terms remain unreported.
Earlier Updates
- Gerrit Cole and the Pirates have settled at $3.75MM, according to Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. After a disappointing 2016 season, the 26-year-old will make nearly $500K less than his $4.2MM projection. He’s under team control through 2019.
- The Nationals and Anthony Rendon are in agreement on a one-year, $5.8MM deal (compared to $6.4MM projection), according to Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post. The 26-year-old third baseman is under team control through 2019.
- Chris Owings and the Diamondbacks have settled at $2.3MM (compared to $2.1MM projection), per Heyman. The 25-year-old, who posted a .731 OPS in 2016 while logging 466 plate appearances between shortstop, center field and second base, is under team control through 2019.
- The Marlins have come to terms with all remaining arbitration-eligible players aside from David Phelps, according to MLB.com’s Joe Frisaro. Tom Koehler will make $5.75MM (compared to $6.2MM projection), per Clark Spencer of the Miami Herald. Adeiny Hechavarria has agreed to a $4.35MM deal (compared to $3.7MM projection) for 2017, according to Heyman. Meanwhile, Derek Dietrich gets $1.7MM ($1.8MM projection) and Marcell Ozuna receives $3.5MM ($4.5MM projection), per Spencer (via Twitter). The Marlins have also avoided arbitration with closer A.J. Ramos, who will earn $6.55MM, per Spencer (via Twitter).
- The Braves have come to terms with Arodys Vizcaino ($1.6MM projection) and Ian Krol ($1MM projection), per David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Terms have not yet been reported. The team has now agreed to deals with all six arbitration-eligible players.
- Juan Nicasio and the Pirates have settled at $3.65MM, according to Matt Gajtka of DKPittsburghSports.com. That is nearly $1MM less than his $4.6MM projection after posting a 4.50 ERA with a career-high 10.5 K/9 in 118 innings. He can become a free agent next offseason.
- The Dodgers agreed to one-year deals with their four remaining arbitration-eligible players, per MLB.com’s Ken Gurnick. Yasmani Grandal will make $5.5MM (compared to $5.3MM projection) after a season in which he posted an .816 OPS with 27 homers. He’ll be eligible for arbitration one last time before he can become a free agent after the 2018 season. Luis Avilan ($1.5MM) and Alex Wood ($2.8MM) were eligible for the first time, while Josh Fields will earn $1.05MM in his second year of eligibility. That trio will remain under team control through 2019.
- Brandon Maurer and the Padres have settled at $1.9MM (compared to $1.7MM projection), per Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Maurer, who posted a 3.09 ERA with 13 saves after taking over as the team’s closer in early July, is under control through 2019.
- The Reds and Billy Hamilton settled at $2.625MM for the upcoming season, tweets FanRag’s Jon Heyman. Hamilton had a breakout second half and finished the year with a .260/.321/.343 batting line, plus three homers and a whopping 58 steals (in 66 tries). He cleared his $2.3MM projection by a fair amount and is controllable through 2019 via arbitration.
- Zack Cozart and Tony Cingrani agreed to one-year deals with the Reds, per MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon (Twitter links), as did right-hander Blake Wood, tweets Heyman. Cozart, a free agent next winter, handily topped his $4.7MM projection after hitting .252/.308/.425 with 16 homers and premium defense at short. Cingrani gets $1.825MM, per Heyman, which is just a hair shy of his $1.9MM projection. Wood had a solid season out of the Cincinnati bullpen, with a 3.99 ERA in 76 2/3 innings after signing as a minor league free agent. He can be controlled through 2018.
- Derek Norris and Tanner Roark both agreed to one-year deals with the Nationals, per Heyman (Twitter links). Norris will get $4.2MM (compared to a $4MM projection), while Roark earns $4.315MM (compared to what looks to have been an overly aggressive $6.1MM projection).
- Hector Rondon and the Cubs avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year deal worth $5.8MM, per Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times (on Twitter). He clears his $5.7MM projection by a small margin of $100K on the heels of a season that saw him post a 3.53 ERA, 18 saves, 10.2 K/9 and 1.4 BB/9 in 51 innings of relief. He’s controlled through 2018. Heyman tweets that the Cubs also dodged arb with Justin Grimm on a $1.825MM deal that is a near-mirror image of his $1.8MM projection. He’s a free agent after the 2019 season.
- Jordy Mercer and the Pirates agreed to a one-year, $4.325MM deal, reports Matt Gajtka of DKPittsburghSports.com. He comes in $325K north of his $4MM projection on the heels of a season in which he batted .256/.328/.374 with 11 homers. Mercer has one more winter of arbitration eligibility and will be a free agent after the 2018 season.
- The Mets and Travis d’Arnaud are in agreement on a one-year, $1.875MM deal, Heyman tweets. That’s $175K above the $1.7MM for the first-year arbitration catcher. Now 28 years old, d’Arnaud has yet to prove he can remain healthy and productive over the life of a full big league season. He’ll get another crack at doing so in 2017, it seems. He batted .247/.307/.323 with four homers in 276 PAs last year. The Mets also avoided arb with Addison Reed, Jeurys Familia and Lucas Duda, who are broken off into a separate post.
- The Marlins and closer A.J. Ramos have avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year deal worth $6.55MM, tweets Heyman. The 30-year-old Ramos was Miami’s primary closer last season and turned in a 2.81 ERA (his third straight sub-3.00 mark) and 40 saves to go along with 10.3 K/9 against 4.9 BB/9 in 64 innings. Ramos comes in $250K shy of his $6.8MM projection but still earns a very healthy raise over last year’s $3.4MM salary.
You guys used to be the fastest of reporting baseball news. Now, I read about deals hours before you write about it. Guess it’s one less site I have to check.
The point isn’t to always get it the fastest. I have read of “deals” from other sources that ended up being reported too soon and never happened. MLBTR compiles trade rumors and deals that are reputable. I prefer they don’t jump the gun.
I agree with you about not getting it first. You’re right on that. However, I read of most of these deals hours before on the teams own websites. Also, when the title if the site, is “rumors”, you can also just point to it being reported, not fact yet.
*of, not if
For a guy who just said above that this is one less site you have to check, then why are you still here in the comments section? This is a free website that aggregates news stories. You aren’t required to be here.
like the reported wil myers deal?
Myers is overrated!!!!!
Great! Guess it’s one less insipid post I’ll have to wade through.
If you have to “wade through” posts, I’m surprised you find comfort here anyways. I’d give you credit for a good vocabulary word in “insipid”, but your post contradicts it.
Damn, now I had to wade through two lame posts.. Can’t even count on you keeping your word and taking your talents(?) someplace else.
Damn, now I have to look up the word “insipid”
I don’t come to MLBTR to find the information first necessarily. Sometimes they are first sometimes not. However, I come here to find more thorough reports. MLBTR gives more info / speculation / background than most other sites do.
Bye, Felicia
Beat me to it!
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That’s true you where the best step your game back up
Are the Braves going to turn Vizcaino loose as their closer this year or what?
Trade him to the Cubs for Tommy LaStella
Re do Viscaino braves for Tom LaStella
TDA better have a very good Spring or they Mets will cut him before the Cut-loose date. In this case it would be well-deserved. So-far he looks to be a AAAA player.
Rosenthal’s contract will be another albatross for the Cards, along with Wong’s.
You have no idea what Albatross actually means do you.
Albatross, that’s the good tuna, isn’t it??
I think that is Tyler and Joe’s Daddy.
Tyson too
Yes, I do. But please enlighten us with your definition and favored use.
I asked you first, but sure. An albatross is a mental burden, that follows you around or “haunts” you. Like a curse. The Red Sox selling Babe Ruth, The Cubs kicking out a Billy Goat, the Eddie Grant Statue and the Giants, these were albatrosses.
$6.4MM for essentially a one year deal on Rosenthal and $2.5MM, $4MM, $6.5, $10.25MM, and $12.5 (or $1.5MM buyout) salary for the next 5 years of Wong (who has posted above league average numbers on offense and defense for his career) is not in any way, shape, or form an albatross for a team that has the Cardinals resources.
OK, I say we are close. Here’s a version of the meaning as I use here:
“A metaphor for a dead weight or burden that one must carry, especially when the burden is not a literal one but a stigma of some kind that one cannot easily discard or throw off. ”
I don’t apply the “curse” aspect that Coleridge added to the story of the sailor. You can if you wish.
But I did, and do, have an idea of what albatross means. Just because we differ on finer points, I see no reason for you to condescend.
As to the players, I think Rosey will decline from injury and/or loss of effective stuff. He has become much more hittable and unreliable in crucial spots in a game. He no longer dominates, and I project that he never will again. He will be overpaid and hard to get rid of.
Wong was a stretch when he was extended. He has not proven that he can sustain a full season of success and be relied upon as a solid MLB starter. To me he is overpaid yet must remain in the lineup to justify Mo’s extension. So Mo pressures Matheny to use Wong regularly, part of which I understand in that his above-average glove offsets the substandard defense of his infield mates Diaz and Carpenter. But you can get a much cheaper fill-in and open the door for other prospects/trades without Wong. And to me, Wong’s trade value is low; lower now with a long contract.
Those things make their contracts “burdens that are difficult to discard.” Too many of these, and it’s a stigma.
As an aside, I often think that the Cards’ default is to use whoever makes it easier for Matheny to make out a lineup card, which he struggles with — unless it’s to ink in his own favorites day after day. cf. Holliday.
Perhaps I can use “anchor” or “dead weight” in the future and we can talk more baseball stuff.
Wong has been more average/below offensively than above.
Albatross is a large bird
…You used Urban Dictionary for a definition…
Albatross is a metaphor from the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” it literally refers to an Albatross, the bird, the killing of which cast a curse over the sailors and the ship.
Rosenthal has been a good bullpen arm before the shoulder problems and looked like his old self upon his return from the DL in September. $6MM is a pittance in todays market and if he struggles in any capacity he’s a very simple release candidate or a non-tender at the end of the year. There’s no such thing as a bad 1-year contract.
While the Cardinals did jump to ink Wong extremely early, the contract is relatively cheap for the first several years. You’re not getting anything close to his production, offensively or defensively, for what they’ll be paying him the next two years. ($2.5MM and $4MM) and even the $6MM third year isn’t expensive in today’s market His trade value is only helped by the fact he’s not hitting arbitration and locked into relatively cheap salaries until 2020. That’s why he’s been linked into rumors all offseason. Teams like him and his abilities on that contract. The notoriously stingy Royals were even calling about him.
Rosenthal’s contract is beyond easy to discard, he’s arb eligible for a few more years and essentially on one year deals and Wong’s is as well the next several years, even with the $10MM pay day in 2020. Adeiny Hechavarria, who is far worse than Wong on offense will be making more than him for the next couple of years because he’s arbitration eligible. His contract is not handcuffing St. Louis nor is it hindering the team from adding value where is needs (see Dexter Fowler). There are far worse contracts on that team now and in the future.
You guys are way to deep for a baseball board. I’all stick to my real good tuna definition.
jake: Yes, I know which version I used. There was no need for me to reinvent a good definition. And yes, I know where the term came from and its symbolism. I read the entire “Rime….” in school.
When I posted this, I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition ! But no one does….
As to the Cards, believe what you want. Wong still is lousy.
Can we expect an uptick in trades for some of these arb guys now that they have signed? I’m thinking that the acquiring team would prefer not to go through the arbitration process and appreciate cost certainty of players before pulling the trigger. Except for Dipoto, he’ll trade whenever!
Your comment about Tanner Roark having an overaggressive projection neglects a post made by Matt Schwartz about his case being subject to a barrier set by Dontrelle Willis’s long-standing, since-broken record.
Ur buddy’s Mom is a Hooker
I wonder how much she could make in arbitration?
I just hope Alderson didn’t shake hands too firmly with D’Arnaud, as that risks putting his Spring Training in jeopardy.
Arodys may turn it out this year.