SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Left-hander Tanner Scott beat the Miami Marlins on Saturday within the yr’s ultimate wage arbitration case, leaving gamers with a 9-6 margin in choices this yr.
Scott was awarded $5.7 million as a substitute of the Marlins’ $5.15 million supply by Robert Herman, John Woods and Allen Ponak, who heard arguments Friday.
Scott, 29, was 9-5 with a 2.31 ERA and 12 saves in 16 possibilities final season, when he made $2,825,000. He’s eligible totally free company after this yr’s World Sequence.
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Groups have a 353-266 benefit since arbitration began in 1974.
The 15 hearings had been down from 19 final yr, when the golf equipment gained 13, however up from 13 in 2022, when groups gained 9. Gamers had a successful document for the primary time since going 6-4 in 2019.
A complete of 198 gamers had been eligible for arbitration after the November deadline for groups to tender 2024 contracts to unsigned gamers on their 40-man rosters, and most reached agreements Jan. 11, when groups and gamers exchanged proposed salaries. The best deal was a $31 million, one-year contract between Juan Soto and the New York Yankees, who acquired the outfielder from San Diego in December.
Toronto All-Star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. gained a $19.9 million wage, the best in an arbitration choice, when a panel picked his determine fairly than the Blue Jays’ $18.05 million supply. That topped the earlier excessive of $14 million for Seattle outfielder Teoscar Hernández after he misplaced his listening to final yr.
Different winners this yr had been San Francisco third baseman J.D. Davis ($6.9 million vs. $6.55 million), Baltimore outfielder Austin Hays ($6.3 million vs. $5.85 million) and right-hander Jacob Webb ($1 million vs. $925,000), Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward ($4.8 million vs $4.3 million), Houston infielder/outfielder Mauricio Dubón ($3.5 million vs. $3 million) and New York Mets right-hander Phil Bickford ($900,000 vs. $815,000).
Losers included Miami second baseman Luis Arraez ($10.6 million vs. $12 million) and heart fielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. ($2,625,000 vs. $2.9 million), Tampa Bay outfielder Harold RamÃrez ($3.8 million vs. $4.3 million) and right-hander Jason Adam ($2.7 million vs. $3.25 million), Los Angeles Angels left-hander José Suarez ($925,000 vs. $1.35 million) and Minnesota infielder/outfielder Nick Gordon ($900,000 vs. $1.25 million).
Adam, Arraez and Ramirez had been attempting to win for the second straight yr. The final gamers to win hearings in consecutive years had been Houston pitcher Collin McHugh in 2017 and ’18, and Cleveland pitcher Trevor Bauer in 2018 and 2019.
