Bell Arb Estimate

[mouse]

mlbtr has their estimate up for Josh Bell's arb number. 5MM.



https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/01/ ... -bell.html



I think mlb is going back to a less active baseball next season so I don't see him hitting as many homeruns. On the other hand, I'm sure Boris knows why he should get whatever number he thinks is appropriate.

[fjk090852-7]

Friday is the day teams and players exchange salary amounts. The Bucs have 8 players in this category. Hopefully most if not all can come to a salary agreement without going through an arbitration hearing.

[fjk090852-7]

Only Musgrove, Frazier and Kela have not yet agreed to contracts of the 8 players eligible for arbitration. Hopefully they sign their contracts soon and avoid a hearing.

[SammyKhalifa]

Josh Bell – $5,900,000

[SammyKhalifa]

Josh Bell – $5,900,000



Joe Musgrove – $3,400,000



Keone Kela – $3,400,000



Adam Frazier – $3,200,000



Trevor Williams – $3,000,000



Jameson Taillon – $2,300,000



Chad Kuhl – $1,400,000



Michael Feliz – $1,200,000



Forget health for just a moment, I wonder how much money Taillon's various health issues has cost him in arb.



edit, i was wrong, those were the estimates not the real amount. Bell 4.8.

[fjk090852-7]

6E5C50504476555C51545B5C3D0 wrote: Josh Bell – $5,900,000



Joe Musgrove – $3,400,000



Keone Kela – $3,400,000



Adam Frazier – $3,200,000



Trevor Williams – $3,000,000



Jameson Taillon – $2,300,000



Chad Kuhl – $1,400,000



Michael Feliz – $1,200,000



Forget health for just a moment, I wonder how much money Taillon's various health issues has cost him in arb.



edit, i was wrong, those were the estimates not the real amount.  Bell 4.8.
I believe they saved some money on the 5 players they signed so far. Each agreed to an amount less than the projected salary.

[fjk090852-7]

Musgrove has signed for 2.8 million which is 600,000 less than the estimated amount. Only Frazier and Kela who have not yet agreed to contracts.

[BenM]

Mookie Betts and the Red Sox just signed a one year, $27 million deal to avoid arbitration.



It won't affect Bell's number this year, but I wonder how it affects internal discussions about trading him before he gets too "expensive" for Nutting's checkbook.

[fjk090852-7]

1C3B30135E0 wrote: Mookie Betts and the Red Sox just signed a one year, $27 million deal to avoid arbitration.



It won't affect Bell's number this year, but I wonder how it affects internal discussions about trading him before he gets too "expensive" for Nutting's checkbook.
I am getting to the point where it might be best to keep the player through the 3 arbitration years, and then let him walk. We traded Cole with two years remaining, and then in the summer of 2018 we traded for Archer which cost us 3 young players. Would it have been more beneficial to have retained Cole and let him walk, and still have the 3 young players which we sent to Tampa in our System?

[fjk090852-7]

Kela and Frazier have also signed contracts, so the Bucs avoided hearings for all 8 players.