Jan

18

Arbitration Begins

Posted by M. Patel under News 

The arbitration process has begun between the Yankees and 3 of our players (Robinson Cano, Chien-Ming Wang and Brian Bruney.) Wilson Betemit was also supposed to go through arbitration, but he agreed to a one year deal with the Yanks for $1.165 million today (meaning he won’t have to go through arbitration.) For those of you who don’t know what arbitration is, I will give a quick explanation.

Arbitration is a form of privately settling disputes (without getting the law involved.) In baseball, it usually comes in the form of salary arbitration, where the mlb acts as a judge and hears the offers from both the team and the player regarding the player’s salary and decides which offer is more reasonable. Prior to the mlb’s decision both parties (the team and the player) agree that they will adhere to whatever decision the league gives. Once the league decides which offer is more fair they announce it and both the team and player agree to it. The player or team that originally proposed the offer that the mlb picked is said to have won arbitration.

So, that is what the Yankees will be going through with Wang, Cano, and Bruney in the next couple of weeks. Cano filed for $4.55 million and was offered $3.2 million by the club and Wang requested $4.6 million and was offered $4 million. I am not sure how much Bruney has asked for, but whatever it is it definetely won’t be as high as Cano or Wang’s. We should be finding out the outcomes of the process within a few weeks.

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