The Brewers won their arbitration hearing over right-hander Adrian Houser, according to MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand (Twitter link). Hauser will earn $2.425MM in 2022, rather than the $3MM salary he was seeking in his first trip through the arb process.
Houser tossed a career-high 142 1/3 innings in 2021, starting 26 of his 28 games for Milwaukee and posting a 3.22 ERA. Despite some unimpressive strikeout (17.5%) and walk (10.7%) rates, Houser found plenty of success with a recipe of soft contact and lots of ground balls. Houser posted a 59% grounder rate and finished in the 89th percentile of all pitchers in barrel rate.
On a Brewers team full of high-strikeout arms, Houser represented a bit of a change of pace for opposing batters, and it earned him a regular spot in the rotation. The righty moved into starting work in the latter half of the 2019 season after working as a multi-inning reliever, and then had only a 5.30 ERA over 56 innings in the shortened 2020 campaign. Those struggles in 2020 spoke to the variance that grounder specialists can face, as Houser had a .325 BABIP in 2020, as opposed to a .259 BABIP last season.
Houser’s $2.425MM salary did beat the $2.3MM projection from MLBTR’s Matt Swartz, and Houser is off to a solid enough start in 2022 that he looks in good shape to earn a nice raise next winter. With Houser’s case now complete, the Brewers can finally close the books on a very busy arbitration class.
So I’ve been confused by this whole process, how are players getting paid during this process? Are they just getting the league minimum until the cases are decided?
They are getting the team’s arb proposal until their cases are decided, back pay if they win.
I believe the word is “defeated.”
Wowser! Don’t lose Houser!
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I resemble that remark, Woob woob woob woob
“BREWERS DEFEAT AND CRUSH PLAYER’S soul”
“Houser DISINTEGRATED in arb hearing”
Not yet found –
“Brewers bulldoze Houser in arbitration, deconstruct confidence”
in summary, the Brewers basically told Houser: “Thanks for your amazing pitching last year, really helped us made the postseason, but… we don’t care. F*** your wishes, we don’t want to pay you a extra 500k, now go pitch for us.”
Ummm, not quite.
He should have probably reached to his uncle….Doug Houser……before the hearing…..just sayin….