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Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jan 19, 2008 
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The Yankees signed Wilson Betemit and are close to a deal with Chien-Ming Wang. But they remain far apart with Robinson Cano.
At this point, arbitration is pretty simple. Either the sides make a deal or a neutral party will select one of the salaries submitted. The Yankees haven’t gone to a hearing with a player since Mariano Rivera in 2000. The Yankees submitted $7.25 million that year while Rivera was seeking $9.25 million. The team won the hearing.
The Mets haven’t gone to arbitration since 1993, thats how much they dislike the process. Little good comes of sitting in a room with your player and laying out all the reasons he shouldn’t get paid what he wants. You can say it’s not personal but everybody takes their salary personally, no mater the occupation.
Ryan Howard asked for 10mil in his first year of arb, that has to shatter the old record
Yanks should sign cano to a 3 year contract. The Yankees would probably save money over a 3 year pact. Also avoid the aggravation of telling a player ” you are not good enough for more than 1 year at our price”.
if the yankees are going to sign Robbie to a long-term deal, i don’t really see the point of a 3 year deal.
the entire point of doing it is to buy out FA years.
otherwise, you are simply giving the player “injury insurance” for free. that doesn’t really help the team at all.
I agree with hmmm. If the Yankees are going to sign Wang and Cano to long term deals, it would probably be best to do it next year. That way you can give them 4 year contracts which would benefit both sides. 2 years of arbitration and 2 years of free agency.
Hrm, they could’ve just ponied up another $500k to Cano and closed the gap a little bit. It’s not like we’re living off revenue sharing money.
“Hrm, they could’ve just ponied up another $500k to Cano and closed the gap a little bit.”
that’s not the way the process works.
the offers are submitted simultaneously.
the Yankees WILL “close the gap” and the deal will get done before a hearing. much ado about nothing.
Ah gotcha. Makes more sense.
I’m terrified about what’s going to happen Cano once he gets the big money more than any other player.
I just have this bad feeling that once he has his millions, his game his drive is going to go down.
Hopefully, I’m wrong.