Aoki to San Francisco, one year $4.7MM.
Not a bad price -- but I'm glad the Braves didn't make the commitment, all things considered.
Aoki to San Francisco, one year $4.7MM.
Not a bad price -- but I'm glad the Braves didn't make the commitment, all things considered.
jpx7 (01-16-2015)
Jon Heyman
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aoki was offered multiyear deals for more guaranteed $ elsewhere. said to want SF for city/contender/playing time combo
Braves1976 (01-16-2015), jpx7 (01-16-2015)
Ha, I don't know . . . my $7m doesn't look too bad really. He has $1.5m in incentives and it sounds like he would have gotten more to sign elsewhere.
In all seriousness though, my 7 guess was based on a two year deal assumption, and his market just doesn't seem as strong as I would have thought. So this is probably the point where I should say, you were right and I was wrong. I'll do my best to get you on the next one.
Markakis signing is probably the worst move of the entire offseason for all 30 teams
Price gets $19.75MM in arbitration.
Damn.
jpx7 (01-16-2015)
To me, what makes those two deals worse than the Markakis signing is that the decisions of Seattle and New York really reek of slightly-impotent desperation; the Braves' choice, on the other hand, just smells like a mix of diffidence and indifference.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Has anybody seen the Minor arbitration figures yet?
All I've seen so far is what MLBTR projected him to make this year, 5.1 million. Further, one guess I read was $5.5 million from Minor's camp with the Braves camp being around $4.75 million. That sounds about what I'd expect too and I like the Braves case given Minor is coming off a bad season (largely due to health issues IMO).
Last edited by Braves1976; 01-16-2015 at 05:59 PM.
Hawk (01-16-2015)
Braves1976 (01-16-2015), jpx7 (01-16-2015)
It's rather surprising (and disappointing) that they couldn't reach a common ground over $500K.
I wonder if Hart is angling to sign him to multi-year pact, similar to what the Braves did with Heyward last offseason.
Here's an interesting blip about Hart and arbitration from the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
The Indians haven't gone to arbitration since 1991, when left-hander Greg Swindell won and second baseman Jerry Browne lost. It was the Swindell hearing that caused former team executives John Hart and Dan O'Dowd to create a plan that helped produce the longest sustained run of success in franchise history.
Swindell won a salary of $2.025 million in the hearing, but came away mad because of critical remarks made by the attorney representing the Indians. The Tribe offered $1.4 million.
"I remember sitting across the table from John Hart and Dan O'Dowd and being furious that this was the team I played for, but they were telling me how bad I was," said Swindell earlier this week. "I realized it was the business side of the game, but I didn't like it."
Swindell added, "But I won."
Hart, now an adviser for the Texas Rangers, recalled that the hearing was: "a blood bath on both sides. We were on one side and Swindell and his agents, the Hendricks brothers, were on the other. The process was very uncomfortable."
Out of that acrimony, the Indians decided to try to sign their young players to multiyear deals to avoid the pitfalls of arbitration. The deals offered young players security at the most vulnerable stage of their careers in exchange for signing away their arbitration years and, in some cases, a club option for at least one free agent year.
http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.../post_129.html