The Red Sox have announced that an arbitration panel found in the team’s favor after a hearing against lefty Fernando Abad. He’ll earn the team’s submitted salary of $2MM, instead of the $2.7MM that he sought.
That $2MM figure is also the exact projection of the MLBTR model developed by contributor Matt Swartz. Abad earned $1.25MM last year and is due to qualify for free agency after the 2017 season.
Acquired in a summer trade from the Twins, the 31-year-old Abad fell shy of expectations upon arriving in Boston. He had compiled a 2.65 ERA over 34 innings in Minnesota, but surrendered nine earned runs over his 12 2/3 frames with the Red Sox while struggling to limit the free passes (12:8 K/BB).
Still, Boston obviously saw enough value to tender a contract and keep Abad around as a second lefty to complement Robbie Ross Jr. Abad held same-handed hitters to a meager .153/.195/.264 batting line last year, and figures to be utilized as something of a lefty specialist in 2017.
Guess that was Abad move for Fernando to go to arbitration
So original
Real knee slapper man
I thought it was not abad joke
Lmao
I thought abad making a similar joke but deemed it to be abad idea.
Ok, can we officially retire Abad puns from MLBTR?
No
After watching him pitch last season, he should be use to losing.
Abad must be a mad about this decision.
Could’ve seen this one coming a mile away, especially after posting a 6.39 era in a Sox uni, he’s lucky he wasn’t non-tendered
All of these puns are giving me a bad headache
Boys/girls…sometimes it’s fun to go the obvious and cliched route. It’s called ashy but classy. Baseballfan90 vindicated!
“Defeat” makes it sound like Dombrowski and Abad went into a law office and wrestled.
Didn’t you know? That’s how they do it. They either go into a ring themselves or designate a champion to fight for them. The winner names the price.
It was a tag team match.
I thought they only did that for 8-digit matches?
Now the Sox can continue his losing streak and DFA him during ST since he’s not even one of the 7 best relievers they have anyway. Why they chose to go to arbitration and pay this guy 2m is really a mystery.. Loss of Pat Light wasn’t much, but watching Abad pitch in any MLB games in 2017 will be when they have better options.in house.
They only have to pay a partial amount of his salary if they release him
Can’t believe he expected his salary to more than double after the way he pitched
To be fair, he did pitch quite well in Minnesota. He was ok overall
Night and day first half versus second half. Fair enough he pitched well for the Twins but he’s asking the team he sucked for to pay him. I’m surprised he wasn’t non tendered
Yeah I know. Not super exciting of a player, but I do think he’s probably worth about $2 million to round out a bullpen. I don’t think the arbitrators factor in half-season splits
Lol, fell shy of expectations… that’s putting it nicely. He’s like the Joe Blanton of the AL East…
Haha Would have been awesome, if we knew the Red Sox brought up MLBTR’s projected arbitration salary to defend their case
Wonder if there is a way to know
MLBTR backs up claims with good evidence