Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 26, 2007
Astros Out of Arbitration

Lisa Gray notes the Astros avoided arbitration battles for the 12th year in a row.

Jason Lane - 1.05 mill (up from 454K last year.) Amazing that a player can perform so badly and yet receive double his salary. Of course, if he is cut in ST, he will only receive a small pro-rated portion of the salary.

Adam Everett - 2.8 mill (up from 1.9 mill last year. He can't make much for being a defensive genius - the bucks come from the bat, and Adam is not on the field for his bat.) He can also earn another 150K in incentives.

Morgan Ensberg - 4.35 mill (up from 3.95 mill last year. I guess he must feel pretty guilty about not being honest about his injured shoulder last year, as he didn't ask for much of a raise.)

It is, what, a dozen years since an Astros player last went to arbitration. This is a very good thing, because all arbitration accomplishes is really establishing bad feelings between team and player. Compromise is a MUCH better solution.

Indeed.


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