Reliever Jason Adam lost his arbitration hearing against the Rays, reports Mark Feinsand of MLB.com (X link). He’ll make $2.7MM for the upcoming season instead of the $3.25MM his camp had been seeking.
Adam and the Rays went to a hearing for a second straight offseason. The right-hander was victorious a year ago, securing a $1.775MM salary against the club’s filing figure of $1.55MM. Things went in the opposite direction this winter, meaning Adam’s raise is a little less than $1MM relative to last year’s sum.
The 32-year-old is coming off a second consecutive very strong performance. Adam turned in a 2.98 ERA through 54 1/3 innings, an impressive follow-up to a dazzling 1.56 mark in the previous season. He punched out 31.1% of opposing hitters, held 11 leads and tallied a career-high 12 saves. An oblique strain cost him most of September and kept him off the playoff roster.
Adam has appeared in parts of six seasons but didn’t break through as a consistent high-leverage presence until landing in Tampa Bay. As a result, he only has between three and four years of MLB service. He’ll be eligible for arbitration two more times, allowing the Rays to keep him under club control until his age-35 season. Tampa Bay still has one more hearing this winter, as they’ve yet to settle on a salary for designated hitter/outfielder Harold Ramírez. That is one of five pending cases around the league; players have won seven of the 11 hearings thus far.
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Good for them being penny pinching cheap astards there’s 100% chance he won’t resign with them.
I always feel like it’s better to be on good terms and keep the player happy rather than nickel and diming him; and him being resentful moving forward
he’s under club control till 2027. the rays dont need to worry wether or not he wants to resign with them. With a low payroll team like the rays, they need to save money even if it’s a small amount.
He’s gonna be like TRADE ME TO THE DODGERS! Like a naggy toddler and eventually come to us if he’s good enough
Huh? So the other teams that win in arbitration are also not losers?
When it’s millions of dollars I can understand but a measly 75,000 is just stupid on the owners part.
Check your math.
325 racks. Meanwhile the dodgers are paying Ohtani 2,000 x that amount and that’s why they have him.
Yeah…what’s a house or two to the uber rich…..?
I would mind owning a house….
I wouldn’t mind owning a house. Wish I could afford one.
@saber-tooth. Over 300k homes in the US are vacant and under the ownership of hedge funds.
Just move in. You can probably spend multiple years there as the real estate portfolio gets bought and sold. Make some tiny improvements to the property and hope you can reach 10 years. Then you have a valid adverse possession case.
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I should have been hired by the Tigers but it turns out, Chris Illich and the staff are not honest men.
Wonder if Rays brought up the balk off in Cincinnati. Classic
great job rewarding a very decent player by denying him a wopping $55k.
Check that math.. 🙂
Lol
do I really need to go and fix my typo and add the zero ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How do some players win their arb hearings when they didn’t have all that good of seasons, yet this guy loses his and yet he’s a damn good relief arm? No it wasn’t like 2022 with an under 2 ERA but he still posted an ERA under 3 and he is one of Tampa’s top relievers, which says a lot because of how good Tampa relievers usually are.
He was good, but there were some games that were torture with walks, HBP, or home runs and those warning track fly balls that had you hold your breath. But he was a good piece of the pen. At 32, with 3 years of team control, they are milking it dry.
Bad news for the Adams Family.
Because people seem to be having trouble with this..
$3,250,000 – $2,700,000= 550,000
It’s not 55,000 or 75,000…
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Stop using math. It’s inflation and bidenomics according to the brain trust of commenters here. People that aren’t allowed fork because they might hurt themselves.
Fun fact: just typing B-I-D-E-N gets flagged for moderation. Then deleted.
Old heads here must be livid.
Lmao!
For all the math wizards in the crowd:
3,250,000 – 2,700,000 = $525,000
$550,000 doh
You were much closer than the rest of the mathletes here. Don’t beat yourself up.
Players 7 out of 11. That seems like a record. Anyone know for sure?
I think the best year the players ever had was 1980, when they won 15 of 26 cases (56.9%). At this point in 2024 the players have won 7 of 11 (63.6%), with five cases remaining.
So your saying there’s a chance…
Note: back in the day the arbiter was allowed to award a settlement value anywhere in the range defined by the player’s number and the team’s number. Today, I believe they must select one or the other. Not exactly sure when that changed.
Nobody in America should be making more than 1 million
Ok, Ho Chi Minh
Guess jesus did not answer his prayers. He can blame one of the others for this. LOL
Jason, you’re not getting any blood out of that turnip……even in arbitration. Don’t worry, they’ll know when to trade you.