Brewers and Nyjer Morgan have agreed to a 1-year, $2.35 million deal, avoiding arbitration.

"That leaves four #Brewers eligible for arby: K-Rod, Marcum, Veras and Loe."

EDIT: Post edited to change link to McCalvy's blog post, which had the dollar amount.

4 months ago Noah Jarosh 16 comments 0 recs |

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@Haudricourt:

Morgan made $471,500 last season but haven’t seen new numbers yet. First year of arbitration so probably jumped toward $2 million.

by Noah Jarosh on Jan 16, 2012 1:31 PM CST reply actions

I wonder how close it'll end up being to what Gomez will be paid next season.

by sjlee on Jan 16, 2012 1:35 PM CST up reply actions

If they both get around $2 million, $4 million is a pretty good deal for that center field, I think.

by Noah Jarosh on Jan 16, 2012 1:38 PM CST up reply actions

6 fWAR in 727 PAs last year?

I’ll definitely take it.

by Cheeseandcorn on Jan 16, 2012 2:30 PM CST up reply actions

Both Charlie and I predicted 2 mil, I believe.

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by tcyoung on Jan 16, 2012 1:52 PM CST up reply actions

I have editted

The Post. Payroll at approximately $97.49M. I was under on this one by $350k ($2M), MLBTR missed by $450k ($1.9M)

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by Charlie Marlow on Jan 16, 2012 2:26 PM CST reply actions

Is $100MM

the new $85MM?

by mpbMKE on Jan 16, 2012 3:16 PM CST up reply actions

New TV Deals

Are making it that way.

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by ASerd87 on Jan 16, 2012 4:13 PM CST up reply actions

There's no way that this can be proven

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~Doug Melvin

"Something always good seems to happen when he's in there. Numbers matched up good."

~RRR

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 16, 2012 4:16 PM CST up reply actions

I would guess they ddn't intend to spend this much.

I would also guess we don’t see a spike next year if the new TV deal kicks in and could possibly see a payroll dip due to going over this year.

Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.

by cooper82 on Jan 16, 2012 6:20 PM CST up reply actions

I just think that its fair to point out that the whole “New TV Deals are making it that way” line of thought implies that there’s this higher stream of revenue that is going right into player salaries. Not only is there no way anyone outside of the organisation can prove that statement, it seems a little ridiculous to even try and make that guess. If the implication is that payroll is going to automagically be around $100M because there is a new, ultra-lucrative television deal, I think a lot of people putting eggs into that basket are going to end up as sad pandas.

"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."

~Doug Melvin

"Something always good seems to happen when he's in there. Numbers matched up good."

~RRR

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 16, 2012 6:31 PM CST up reply actions

The other question is if all the money going back into player salaries would be

the best use of the money.

Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.

by cooper82 on Jan 16, 2012 7:17 PM CST up reply actions

Yes exactly

ballpark renovations/improvements, salaries for additional/better/etc scouts or scouting programs, etc etc

"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."

~Doug Melvin

"Something always good seems to happen when he's in there. Numbers matched up good."

~RRR

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 16, 2012 7:49 PM CST up reply actions

Cough

Pocketing it. Cough.

by mpbMKE on Jan 16, 2012 8:16 PM CST up reply actions

I wouldn't blame Mark A. for doing that, either

"If we want to sign a Type A free agent, we would lose a second-round pick, but we don't have a way to get picks back. Our whole Draft process needs to be redone."

~Doug Melvin

"Something always good seems to happen when he's in there. Numbers matched up good."

~RRR

by Charlie Marlow on Jan 16, 2012 9:04 PM CST up reply actions

He already sewed Brewers uniforms over his pockets though.

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by Yar Nivek on Jan 16, 2012 11:52 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs

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