Salary Arbitration '08: Owners 4, Players 0

Maury posted 2/17/2008 from www.bizofbaseball.com [flag]

The owners are batting a 1.000 this year in salary arbitration, having won all four hearings so far. As we reported, Felipe Lopez lost his case with the Washington Nationals , and therefore will get the club offering salary of $4.9 million for this season. Brian Fuentes lost his case with the Colorado Rockies and will make $5.05 million this year. Jose Valverde lost his case with ... [link]

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