Mets up for arbitration

[Vic Sage]

The Mets have 12 guys eligible for salary arbitration this year. Here's the list (2016 salary/expected 2017 salary per MLB Trade Rumors) --

these guys will certainly be tendered:
RHP Addison Reed: $5.2M / $11.1M
RHP Jeurys Familia: $4.1M / $8.8M
RHP Matt Harvey: $4.3M / $5.2M
RHP Jacob deGrom: $600K / $4.5M
RHP Zack Wheeler: $546K / $1M

these guys will probably be tendered:
1B Lucas Duda: $4.2M / $6.7M
IF Wilmer Flores: $520K / $1.9M
C Travis d’Arnaud: $540K / $1.7M
LHP Josh Edgin: $500K / $800K

these guys probably won't be tendered:
C Rene Rivera: $443K / $2.2M
OF Justin Ruggiano: $180K / $1.5M
RHP Jim Henderson: $507K / $1.4M

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm off the Edgin Bandwagon myself. Not that he matters a whole lot either way, just seems like one of those guys who's destined to be a lefthanded journeyman, beginning his journey.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm off the Edgin Bandwagon myself. Not that he matters a whole lot either way, just seems like one of those guys who's destined to be a lefthanded journeyman, beginning his journey.

I'm not necessarily on it, but his raise is basically nothing. Unless the Mets make a ton of moves and need the roster space, I doubt he's non-tendered.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, there's something to be said for the fact that they carried him through his hurting year, so they might as well carry him through a more healthy one.

But it's a roster spot, and he's out of options. So I'm of two minds.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It may be more about the roster space. They may want to protect some prospects from the Rule 5, and a guy like Edgin might be a casualty of that.

[Centerfield]

Hi. I just want to say that if anyone wants to throw Josh Edgin's $300k raise (basically nothing) my way, I'd be happy to take it on.

Oh to have been a shitty middle reliever.

[Benjamin Grimm]

With $300,000, we could all go to Peru next summer!

[Frayed Knot]

these guys will probably be tendered: 1B Lucas Duda: $4.2M / $6.7M IF Wilmer Flores: $520K / $1.9M C Travis d’Arnaud: $540K / $1.7M LHP Josh Edgin: $500K / $800K

I'd call Lucas a probably but I'd be pretty darn surprised if either of Flores or d'Arnaud are allowed to walk.
Edgin is a probably not although, as mentioned, it's essentially minimum wage+ so maybe so, and even then you could probably bargain him down to $742,273.50 plus a reserved parking space at Port St Lucie.

[seawolf17]

these guys will probably be tendered: 1B Lucas Duda: $4.2M / $6.7M IF Wilmer Flores: $520K / $1.9M C Travis d’Arnaud: $540K / $1.7M LHP Josh Edgin: $500K / $800K I'd call Lucas a probably but I'd be pretty darn surprised if either of Flores or d'Arnaud are allowed to walk. Edgin is a probably not although, as mentioned, it's essentially minimum wage+ so maybe so, and even then you could probably bargain him down to $742,273.50 plus a reserved parking space at Port St Lucie.

Yeah, this. I'd be stunned to see them let Wilmer or Travis go for nothing.

[Vic Sage]

i agree they'll be tendered... probably. And i think they should be. But they each have injury issues, or positional issues, or production issues (or all 3), so i can't say that each of them is a mortal lock (on a par with deGrom). It depends on if the Mets make trades or sign FAs, or need to save $$ and/or a roster spot.

[ashie62]

The only questionable I see is Duda. Only Duda and the Mets have seen his medical reports.

[seawolf17]

Vic Sage wrote: i agree they'll be tendered... probably. And i think they should be. But they each have injury issues, or positional issues, or production issues (or all 3), so i can't say that each of them is a mortal lock (on a par with deGrom). It depends on if the Mets make trades or sign FAs, or need to save $$ and/or a roster spot.

Agree - I'm just saying it'd have to be something extraordinary for the Mets to just let them go for nothing. I could see them trading any or all of them, however.

[Edgy MD]

I don't tend to think the Mets have a lot of obvious guys they desperately need to protect from the Rule 5 draft. Amed Rosario is certainly an obvious one. Marcos Molina is coming off a lost year, but he's exactly the sort of guy a bad team would want to grab, hide in the back of their bullpen, pitch once a week, and farm him out the following season. Sewald, maybe Taijeron, but if the Mets were concerned about losing him they might have called him up in September to get a look at him.

Maybe Kevin McGowan. Hmmm... maybe their are a few guys worth shedding an Edgin to protect.

AAA --- Las Vegas 51s
Chasen Bradford
Kyle Johnson
L.J. Mazzilli
Tyler Pill
Paul Sewald
Travis Taijeron
Beck Wheeler

AA --- Binghamton Mets
Jayce Boyd
Xorge Carrillo
Phillip Evans
Ricky Knapp
Luis Mateo
Kevin McGowan
Jeff McNeil
Matt Oberste
Paul Paez
Tim Peterson
Colton Plaia
Amed Rosario
Champ Stuart
Logan Taylor

A+ --- St. Lucie Mets
Wuilmer Becerra
Patrick Biondi
Chris Flexen
Marcos Molina
John Mora
Tomas Nido
Corey Oswalt
Scarlyn Reyes
Jhoan Urena

A --- Columbia Fireflies
Tyler Bashlor
Kevin Canelon
Nabil Crismatt
Jeff Diehl
Jose Garcia
Cameron Griffin
Johnny Magliozzi
Craig Missigman
Christian Montgomery
Natanael Ramos
Joe Tuschak

A- --- Brooklyn Cyclones
Gabriel Feliz
Ty Williams

R --- Kingsport Mets
Adrian Almeida
Franklin Correa
Ronald Guedez
Jose Maria
Jose Carlos Medina
Dionis Rodriguez

R --- GCL Mets
Nicolas Debora
Jose Geraldo
Luis Montero
Aneury Olivo
Miguel Patino
Pedro Perez
Richard Reina
Carlos Sanchez

Extended Spring Training / Other
Audry German

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Those are all eligible guys?
Would seem Nido, Molina, Beccera, Rosario are guys with some chance to be good if not taken away in Rule 5. They also wanna see obviously what Oberste and Stewart can do.

Some shitty team might take Stewart just for his glove and his wheels if they're what I think I read they were.

Sewald and Pill are close. I thought for sure Sewald was gonna get a job after that great jb he did in the Vegas lid-lifter games early this season when the team really sucked.

[Edgy MD]

I didn't spot Nido and Becerra. Yeah, they're likely getting 40'd.

Strange year for Wuilmer, though. He spent half of it hurt, and the other half, all his homers turned to doubles. His contact skills were there, though. He might get dangled.

[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: I didn't spot Nido and Becerra. Yeah, they're likely getting 40'd. Strange year for Wuilmer, though. He spent half of it hurt, and the other half, all his homers turned to doubles. His contact skills were there, though. He might get dangled.

He's the one legitimate power threat in the organization. Gotta protect him.

[Frayed Knot]

Duda ($7.75 mil) and Wheeler (800K) strike one-year deals and avoid the arbitration process.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I need an agent, how does Duda get a small raise?

[Frayed Knot]

By being compared to those in their third (and final) year of arbitration as opposed to those in their second.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Who plays first base making over $7 mil (and is third year) and played in
fewer games than Lucadude last season?

[Frayed Knot]

Probably none, but of course MLB players aren't paid strictly on the results of their most recent season.


And now Travis d'Arnaud checks in with a $1.875 mil deal.

[Benjamin Grimm]

New York Daily News wrote: The Mets and catcher Travis d’Arnaud avoided arbitration with a one-year, $1.875 million deal on Friday, a source familiar with the deal confirmed to the Daily News. The 27-year-old had a terrible 2016 season, with 62 hits — only seven extra-base — and 15 RBI in 251 at-bats. But in 2015, he had 27 extra-base hits, including 12 home runs, in only 67 games. On Friday the Mets also reportedly agreed to terms with lefthander Josh Edgin, righthander Addison Reed ($7.75 million) and righthander Jeurys Familia ($7.425 million).

[G-Fafif]

DeGrom and Mets settle at $4.05 million plus performance bonuses, per Rubin.

[Edgy MD]

Down to Harvey and Wilmer, and I can't imagine either of them hold out long, since they were both carried over the finish line last year.

[ashie62]

Familia 7.425 million right crosses.

[G-Fafif]

Harvey in: $5.125 million plus $100K in "performance bonuses," per Wagner of NYT.

[G-Fafif]

Wilmer, however, appears headed for the arbitration table, multiple sources report.

[ashie62]

Maybe Wilmer has been talking to Wally Backman.

[Zvon]

G-Fafif wrote: Wilmer, however, appears headed for the arbitration table, multiple sources report.

Hmmm.

[Frayed Knot]

Eh no biggie, there's still time for the two sides to reach a negotiated settlement. And, if not, then they go the arb route to settle things.
Arbitration isn't always the most pleasant solution, but even bad hearings are more likely to result in some temporary ruffled feathers than in Game of Thrones level blood and guts, and I can't recall hearing about even one player who cut ties with teams over whatever might have been said during a years-earlier arb hearing.