The Giants have won their arbitration case against infielder Donovan Solano, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com tweets. Solano will earn $3.25MM in 2021 after filing for $3.9MM.
Solano, who previously appeared in the majors with the Marlins and Yankees, has turned into an unexpected success story since the Giants signed him to a minor league before the 2019 season. Since then, Solano has batted .328/.362/.459 in 431 plate appearances, and though he hasn’t shown much power (.131 ISO, seven home runs), his overall output has still been 20 percent than the league-average mark, according to FanGraphs. Defensively, Solano has mostly lined up at second for the Giants, with whom he has managed one Defensive Run Saved and a minus-3.0 Ultimate Zone Rating in almost 600 innings.
Solano should again earn plenty of playing time in San Francisco in 2021. It could be the 33-year-old’s last season in San Francisco, though, as he’s slated to become a free agent next winter.
33 gotta make that money while the sun still shining. I wonder what the internal mechanics of these things are really like, if feelings and emotions play as big a role as they are purported to in these types of negotiations. Win an arb case but you have a pissed off employee now.
If losing your arbitration case negatively affects your performance, then the player in question clearly wasn’t deserving of the higher salary to begin with.
You have an employee with something to prove, who just heard a neutral arbiter agree with the team about what he needs to improve on. More times than not, I think that’ll be a better employee than the one who heard from the arbiter that he’s great and the criticisms were wrong. So I’d be more worried about what happens to performance after the player wins the case, as opposed to loses.
Not really that’s why they have agents, so the agents can get all fired up with the teams negotiators. The coaches and the player aren’t really involved I don’t think, they just get the verdict, so I would imagine unless some one is extremely egotistical and self absorbed they just move on and keep the same working relationship. That is assuming most players are playing for their manager and not the owner.
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This is the Giants first arbitration case in years. It’s been at least 10 years, they usually find the mid point and settle their instead of going to arbitration.
If he has a good start, I can see him traded by the deadline. LaStella should get most of the rep’s at second base for the next 3 years.
Does 3 million dollars for an inferior third tier player offend anyone but me when small town cops, teachers and nurses make less than 40 thousand and fire fighters mostly are volunteers? Couldn’t we do just fine if nobody paid him at all?
One, he’s not a third tier player. Two, it’s quite stupid to compare a player to ocupations to that of teachers, fire fighters etc. Third, if you want to complain about salary/play, complain about the social media “influencers/thots” who get paid hundreds of thousands to post pictures of plastic booty’s and pretend that they’re relevant.
Yes, anyone who thinks any of those people are more valuable than those of us who can save a life, stop a robber, put out a house fire or teach your children are deluded. And no, he is a third tier player if that. One final point, if all he was offered to play is 90 thousand, would he say no?
No one’s saying teachers and first responders are not more valuable. But you’re comparing apples to oranges. These athletes work in a profession that generates billions of dollars in revenue. Of course they’re going to be paid handsomely. What’s so hard to understand about that? Reference DarkSided’s comment – it’s simple economics. Don’t like it, then why are you on a baseball page?
Have you ever bought any sort of memoribela, whether that be a jersey, t-shirt, hat for any of your favorite fire fighters, cops, nurses. doctors or teacher? Probably not. Fernando Tatis Jr. didn’t just get paid $340 million because he’s that good of a player. It’s because his jersey is the 4th most popular in the MLB right now. Bryce Harper’s Phillies’ jersey was the best selling pro-athlete jersey ever in a 24-hour period and season ticket sales skyrocketed. Donavan Solano may not be the most popular player in the MLB, but I know he’s pretty popular among Giants fans and if it means that more people will come to the games, then he’ll get paid $3,25 million.
Frankly, teachers are a dime a dozen now and mostly overpaid.
Actually Lord, teachers are in short supply and are vastly underpaid. With covid happening, the profession is less desirable–now more than ever. In fact, teachers are choosing other professions.
Absolutely ridiculous and offensive comment Lord! Perhaps this attitude accounts for the reason so few children are prepared for education and so many parents place so little value on education. Good teachers who can inspire children to learn and achieve are worth their weight in gold from my perspective.
@in nurse follars:
Third tier players don’t average those numbers buddy…
But how dare you be mad at a “third tier” player for making 1% of what the stars make and 0.001% of what the owners make!
And if you’re talking about community value over dollars, no one deserves your hatred more than billionaires
Yeah, wow @lord, way to sound ignorant as f
ABS, he’s a “third tier player” that won a Silver Slugger award for his third tier performance
Millions of people can qualify to be teachers or firefighters, only a handful of people can hit .300. Supply and demand.
Also salano was ranked 7th best 2nd baseman in the game right now on MLB Network so I don’t think that ranks him as a third tier player and thank you for what you do.
Go away.
Good teachers who can inspire children to learn and achieve and 70% of what you’ll find in a public school are two different things. My mother was a teacher, at first she was that special teacher that inspired and made a difference for kids. By retirement she was a miserable politically motivated old woman I would not have let me kids be taught by. She lied and got 3 different children expelled from grammar because she didn’t like them and the union backed her every time. Now three years later after retirement she has gone back to being the kind sweet lady she always was and is great for the grandkids, she has tremendous guilt about her last 5 years teaching, and voting Democrat for 2 decades, best thing she ever did was retire and get out of the SF public school system.
I didn’t know this was underpaid public worker trade rumors?
Lol best one! Good job bigeasy
Why is “booty’s” possessive?
if you got booty you got possessive
vastly overused comment. simple economics explains why they get paid more. sheesh.
OK you get on getting those people raises and in the meantime baseball players will get the going rate they get paid.
The things that these players do are amongst the rarest skills in the world. That’s not to down play the importance of the work of teachers and firefighters and everyone else. But the fact is that those are learned skills that can be taught to most. Hence the disparity in pay.
Also, since when do we wish for some to make less because we think others should make more. Why can’t Donovan Solano make millions AND we all agree that firefighters and teachers and everyone else get paid properly? Why would my or my neighbors suffering make me want to wish less on someone else? Teachers should make more. Firefighters should make more. And to heck with it, our favorite baseball players should make more, too.
Also, Solano is not a third tier player.
I’m more upset senate and house of reps collected their full salary this past year and we wasted time trying a private citizen instead of working on that promise of $2000 checks.
My mom was a teacher in a smallish town for decades. She was making well over 100k when she retired with a pension and investment portfolio that was employer matched the whole time she was working. Don’t forget the 3 months off out of the year. I never heard her complain about being underpaid. She was greatful for her job, unlike these teachers in California now who refuse to do their jobs to the incredible detriment of the children. If grocery store employees can suck it up and go to work during a pandemic that over 99% of people who get infected survive, so can teachers.
who the hell of teachers in California are being vocal about refusing to do their jobs? Please provide a link of resources because this teacher is grateful to even have a job..and it sucks not being able to be physically there to help students..do you know how frustrating it is to explain features of a computer to a 1st grader? I make slides all the time to make learning a little more interactive only to have my first graders accidentally delete my material and now I have to explain where the redo button is 24 times a day..Also, prepping all night long for the next day to only to notice that half of my students are not logged in to Zoom..trust me there are some crummy parents who don’t give a rats ass about educating their kids
tedtheodorelogan:
Wow, how did the offspring of a teacher turn out to be so ignorant. A teacher spends hours indoors with the same group people. Grocery store workers do not. They have contact of less than 15 minutes which makes a huge difference in the probability of contracting the virus from an infected person.
I appreciate the grocery store workers coming to work, but their job was more essential than that of teachers.
And “greatful”? I would think anyone whose mother was a teacher would know how to spell grateful.
ok nurse..I don’t think you realize the funding and resources that come from a billion dollar franchise/team who also get millions of dollars from fans..and there’s a great chance that those fans are firefighters, teachers, cops and nurses
You can try communism if you want people to be paid according to their true value to society rather than market conditions, but I think you’ll find it has some drawbacks.
Or socialism, where rich people pay more in taxes and all of society benefits.
Or even if rich people and corporations just actually paid taxes, let alone the tax rate of the avg person, that one change would fix a lot of things.
Just saw that more than 70% of unpaid taxes are from the top 1%…
But welfare for the rich never seems to bother these guys that break out the old communism boogeyman
Nope it’s just you.
Farhan pinches more pennies…. shocking!
If you’re shelling out 100M+ in payroll every year, you’re going to fight for every discount you can find.
You do the same, only you wait for the gas station that sells gas at 2.35, instead of 2.39.
It’s the same thing, just on a much, much bigger scale.
The Giants won something ?
They’ve won more than the Yankees have in the last 10 years. And don’t bother with the ancient 27 titles, kid. You weren’t around for those.
Lmao
How about over the past 25 years? I’m pretty happy as a Yankees fan with all the championships I’ve seen.
It was just a joke guy, calm yourself down. I understand they’ve won; you got way too offended at that….. wow.
I’ve been around for more than the Giants have won though, just FYI.
Thats great. Did I ask?
Sure you were, sweetheart. Not sure what’s more embarrassing, you trying to troll on the post that has nothing to do with the lowly Yankees, or the fact that the Yankees keep trying to buy championships but choking and making excuses. The Yankees are without a doubt, the most overrated franchise in all of sports. Their fake fans wonder why people hate on em, but the reality is, their fans are also some of the stupidest people on earth. Fly away, kiddo. .
@dodgers^^^^ingsuck (spelled out backwards) sure seems to have a hate on for any team that has a budget and is not afraid to spend it on their players. I love all the losers that suggest the Yankees and any free spending teams management are trying to buy championships. There is no professional team that has in its employ any players that do not receive remuneration of at least $563,500.00 per season. The fact that they don’t just pocket the difference like your favourite team does shows that they care more about the well being of their players than about pocketing money.
@kcusgnikcufsregdod
“They’ve won more than the Yankees have in the last 10 years”
Really? How bout that 98 loss season a few years ago? Or the past 4 consecutive losing seasons?
Organizationally, SF couldn’t carry the Yankees jock strap. Lol
But don’t take my word for it. Here’s a catagorization of all 30 teams by Mike Pertriello ( Fangraphs ) . This is broken down into 7 tiers. Yankees first tier and of course the Giants 7th ( LAST) tier
mlb.com/news/ranking-2020-mlb-team-tiers
Absolutely pathetic showing by the Giants front office for even going to arbitration over this, HE’S 33 FFS!!! Pay him $650K more you cheapskate losers!
This is accurate
The nationals went in for $250k with Michael a Taylor. Would love to have seen the lawyer fees of doing that.
Congrats Donavon, you won either way. Dude paid his dues in the Cardinals farm system. Great to see him get a chance to play and then make some real money! Too bad it’s for the Giants…..
Is this player a career less than three wins guy? Career ops+ of 88? Seems third tier to me.
Shh don’t tell that to a giants fan. They all think he’s Roberto Alomar
And you think you can umpire?
Nobody knows the dialogue that happened after the Giants and Solano exchanged figures. I really can’t imagine the Giants didn’t try and meet Solano somewhere in the middle. But at the end of the day, if both sides are confident in their numbers and unwilling to budge someone has to lose.
Solano has put up great numbers the last 2 years and I hope that continues.