News: These People will officially Cost Draft Picks
24 free-agents were offered salary arbitration, including Juan Cruz, Brian Fuentes, Orlando Hudson, Raul Ibanez, Derek Lowe, Manny Ramirez, Francisco Rodriguez and Jon Garland.
By offering arbitration, assuming he does not accept the one-year offer, if the player leaves to sign with a new team, that new team will owe the old team at least one compensatory draft pick.
The Mets offered salary arbitration to Oliver Perez. However, they did not offer arbitration to Luis Ayala and Moises Alou.
Additionally, Adam Dunn, Pat Burrel and Bobby Abreu, as well as Andy Pettitte, Joe Beimel, Randy Wolf and Kerry Wood, were not offered arbitration, meaning they will not cost their new team a draft pick.
…i find it interesting that arbitration was not extended to dunn, abreu and burrell, which means their teams made a calculated decision suggesting these players could have so few enticing options on the open market that they’d be willing to accept a one-year deal…in other words, what is going on in the outfielder’s market…at the same time, these players will become slightly more attractive now that their new team does not have to part with draft picks in exchange for signing them…
