Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 05, 2009
Arbitration Time

Players with three years of service can file for arbitration starting today. The Phillies have quite a few who are likely to get big raises this season:

Players can file for arbitration starting today, and seven Phillies are eligible to make more in 2009 through this process (Eric Bruntlett and Clay Condrey have already agreed to extensions). The heavy seven are Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, Shane Victorino, Jayson Werth, Ryan Madson, Greg Dobbs, Joe Blanton and Chad Durbin. And each of the seven can write his case on why he deserves the money he seeks.

Luckily, the Phillies are now a successful team, putting plenty of fans in the ballpark. Now's the time to control their costs by buying out arbitration and a year of free agency as much as they can.


Posted by David Pinto at 12:06 PM | Players | TrackBack (0)
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In a side note, looks like burrell is headed to the rays.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3811501&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

I also got the same news from a rays season ticket sales agent; not an especially good source but it looks more solid that burrell is coming.

Posted by: jazzy jef at January 5, 2009 03:35 PM
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