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Marcus Stroman

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Marcus Stroman lost his arbitration hearing against the Blue Jays and will receive a $6.5 million salary in 2018.

 

Stroman broke the news on his personal Twitter account Thursday: "Lost arbitration. Is what it is. Looking forward to going out and dealing again. The negative things that were said against me, by my own team, will never leave my mind. I’m thick-skinned so it will only fuel the fire. Can’t wait for this year!" Stroman had requested a salary of $6.9 million from the Toronto front office. He is a Super Two player and won't hit free agency until after the 2020 campaign.

 

Source: Marcus Stroman on TwitterFeb 15 - 1:31 PM

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That’s a huge problem I see with arbitration. You literally have a team telling a , in this case, star player that he’s not as good as he says he is while also telling him they see him as a big part of the teams future. I understand it’s business and they are all professionals but I can definitely see how there would be some hard feelings.
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I know it is a business but why argue over 400k with your "ace" pitcher? Seems so minimal to go through this process and tick off your best pitcher.
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I know it is a business but why argue over 400k with your "ace" pitcher? Seems so minimal to go through this process and tick off your best pitcher.

 

Agreed. $6.5M or $6.9M? Isn't that the sort of deal usually settled before the hearing for $6.7M, and your star pitcher is happy...

 

Sounds like he's not as thick-skinned as he claims to be, and will be out of there the first chance he gets...

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My only guess as to why you quibble with him is that it's possible behind closed doors that Stroman cold've kept bumping it up and up and up if the Blue Jays didn't dig in. I'm not 100% sure of how things go leading up to arbitration, but it's possible that when they talked settlement prices, it was around $6 million and then he just kept going up and up and up knowing the PR hit of battling with your star player until they said "let's settle this in arbitration" and they presented the most recent numbers they were at, which the Blue Jays won.

 

Anyways, I agree that you don't really quibble over that much with one of your star players, just searching maybe for a reason why.

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I know it is a business but why argue over 400k with your "ace" pitcher? Seems so minimal to go through this process and tick off your best pitcher.

 

Agreed. $6.5M or $6.9M? Isn't that the sort of deal usually settled before the hearing for $6.7M, and your star pitcher is happy...

 

Sounds like he's not as thick-skinned as he claims to be, and will be out of there the first chance he gets...

 

I don't think I've ever seen that close in offer and ask for that high a price. I'd think Arbitrators wondered why are we here and you two hadn't settled for 6.7 or 6.75mil. Waste of our time.

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According to HH, JD to Boston has slightly increased our odds of acquiring Stro at the deadline.

 

These are the comments I’m lost on with this. Who knows who will be players at the deadline.

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According to HH, JD to Boston has slightly increased our odds of acquiring Stro at the deadline.

 

These are the comments I’m lost on with this. Who knows who will be players at the deadline.

 

Yeah, there's A LOT that can happen between now and the end of July. I don't think acquiring Martinez makes the Red Sox a favorite. That seems like a pretty big stretch, but who knows?

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According to HH, JD to Boston has slightly increased our odds of acquiring Stro at the deadline.

 

These are the comments I’m lost on with this. Who knows who will be players at the deadline.

 

He's said we've talked to Jays, M's, Tigers on Stroman, Paxton, Fulmer about making deadline deals.

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According to HH, JD to Boston has slightly increased our odds of acquiring Stro at the deadline.

 

To be fair, HH19 does sometimes express opinion, and I suspect that's what this is. This deal makes it harder for the Jays to stay in the race so, if that's true, the Jays may be more willing to sell at the deadline.

"Don't force him to choose between Chris Smalling and Phil Jones. It's like asking someone to choose between which STD to contract!"
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According to HH, JD to Boston has slightly increased our odds of acquiring Stro at the deadline.

 

To be fair, HH19 does sometimes express opinion, and I suspect that's what this is. This deal makes it harder for the Jays to stay in the race so, if that's true, the Jays may be more willing to sell at the deadline.

 

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According to HH, JD to Boston has slightly increased our odds of acquiring Stro at the deadline.

 

To be fair, HH19 does sometimes express opinion, and I suspect that's what this is. This deal makes it harder for the Jays to stay in the race so, if that's true, the Jays may be more willing to sell at the deadline.

 

Did he happen to remember the New York Yankees play in the AL East?

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I took HH's tweet as that Boston just got better, so the odds that the Jays are in contention come July 31, are slimmer. Thus making it a greater chance that they may be interested in dealing Stroman. Just my 2 cents

 

Wasn't that what I said...? :)

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Reported on mlb.com that Stroman is shut down with shoulder inflammation. No timetable for his appearance during spring training...

 

Just keeping him fresh for an early "CC" like trade. ;)

 

Combine that with Burnes coming in as the "1992 Cal Eldred" for half a year.

 

To steal a line, Why not the Brewers?

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Reported on mlb.com that Stroman is shut down with shoulder inflammation. No timetable for his appearance during spring training...

 

This is precisely why I'm so against putting all the eggs in one basket and trading multiple assets for a pitcher at this point in the season. Imagine how deflating this would have been had the Brewers just acquired Stroman

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Reported on mlb.com that Stroman is shut down with shoulder inflammation. No timetable for his appearance during spring training...

 

This is precisely why I'm so against putting all the eggs in one basket and trading multiple assets for a pitcher at this point in the season. Imagine how deflating this would have been had the Brewers just acquired Stroman

 

Sounds like he would probably be back after maybe missing two weeks, so I don't see it being a big deal.

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