New York Mets, Keeping Arbitrators Unemployed

[Edgy MD]

Continuing their historic pattern, spanning several regimess, of avoiding arbitration, the Mets announced today that they have settled with both Eric Young Jr. and Bobby Parnell. This follows on the heels of of arbitration agreements with Ike Davis and Ruben Tejada and Jonathan Niese.

[list:1oawvzeh]Parnell: $3.7 million
Davis: $3.5 million
Young: $1.85 million
Tejada: $1.1 million[/list:u:1oawvzeh]

Still to come, Lucas Duda, Dillon Gee, and Daniel Murphy.

[Edgy MD]

Daniel Murphy settles for $5.7 million, $50,000 bonus for 500 plate appearances.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Don't really see how he's worth the money, I guess they're
not broke again or something.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Above-average-- warts and all-- starting second-baseman? Averaged 2.3 fWAR over the last three seasons? More valuable than Brandon Phillips, Ian Kinsler, or Howie Kendrick last year? That's not worth a high-priced-reliever's salary to you?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Guess for me it's the warts. Team, owners, organization
has an awful lot of warts.

[Edgy MD]

Reports have Gee and the Mets and the Mets and Gee settling at $3.625 million, about .005 off from his ERA.

If that's true, the arbitration chapter of the book of the offseason looks to be a brief one, with only Duda unsettled.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm not sure Duda is unsettled; I think that's just the way his face looks.

[Edgy MD]

The Gee settlement, as reported, is official

Don't know what Duda is holding out for. Posters of trucks for his bedroom, I think.

[Lefty Specialist]

Edgy MD wrote: The Gee settlement, as reported, is official Don't know what Duda is holding out for. Posters of trucks for his bedroom, I think.

Home numbers of Las Vegas showgirls, perhaps.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He'd probably be happy with a bright shiny object.

[Zvon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He'd probably be happy with a bright shiny object.

Flip him these, tell him their the keys to the Citi.


Why is it postulated that Duda is "holding out".

[Edgy MD]

Everybody else approaching arbitration has come to an agreement at or around the halfway point between the team's offer and the player's request.

It certainly could be the team drawing a hard line. I imagine they draw up their budgets by taking whatever their offer is and adding 25% to it.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Everybody else approaching arbitration has come to an agreement at or around the halfway point between the team's offer and the player's request. It certainly could be the team drawing a hard line. I imagine they draw up their budgets by taking whatever their offer is and adding 25% to it.

And maybe in The Dudes case deducting 25%.

[Edgy MD]

Duda's in the fold!!

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Duda's in the fold!!

kool. I'm down on him sometimes but I have to admit he's a fine young man.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Yay! Squirrel pie f'r'n ev'ryone, on'm me!"