Comments on: Jered Weaver loses his arbitration case

By: saltwatertrout

saltwatertrout — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:54:21 +0000

For those of you confused by the decision and why the Halos would go to arbitration over this, I think this article will clear things up a bit (it did for me)

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/index.php/site/article/weaver_to_lincecum_or_not_to_lincecum_that_is_the_arbitrators_question/

The Angels’ offer was right in line with the comparables to Weaver, and the arbitrators agreed. Furthermore, it’ll set the baseline in terms of dollars for a longterm extension.

By: uyf1950

uyf1950 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:29:08 +0000

I still cant see how Weaver lost his case. An All Star and 5th in the 2010 CY vote on top of an excellent ERA and bb to so ratio. Just can’t understand it.

By: spudchukar

spudchukar — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:30:15 +0000

Yeah UYF, I think this falls into the win the battle, lose the war category.

By: Mike Luna

Mike Luna — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:29:30 +0000

This makes no sense.

Shame on you, Angels.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:48:15 +0000

You could have stopped at “Boras” and come to the same conclusion. 8^)

By: uyf1950

uyf1950 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:09:01 +0000

Like the article says. The bigger issue is the Angels were willing to take on Wells contract but they hassle Weaver over a less then $1.5M Doesn’t make any sense, especially if you are looking at signing the guy long term in the near future. As the saying goes I think the Angels were being “penny wise and pound foolish” in this case.

By: BC

BC — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:05:47 +0000

Ohlendorf wins and Weaver loses? I’m totally confused.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:04:01 +0000

Dadgummit? Aces and Chooch must be close, ’cause Craig’s already channeling Cholly!!!!!!!

By: dodger88

dodger88 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:00:39 +0000

I know it’s an apples and oranges debate but there is something wrong when Jered Weaver loses his arbitration case while Ross Ohlendorf wins his.

By: uyf1950

uyf1950 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:46:33 +0000

Sorry, but I’m going to try that post again. Hopefully this time without all of the mistakes.

If I were a betting man I would say that’s not going to leave a good taste in Weaver/Boras mouth. They are certainly not going to want to give the Angels the benefit of the doubt in any long term contract negotiation. You can probably count of Weaver hitting the free agency market come the 2013 season.

By: uyf1950

uyf1950 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:39:39 +0000

If I were a betting man I would say that’s not going to leave a good taste in Weaver/Boras mouth. It certainly no going to want to give the Angels the benefit of the doubt in a long term contract negotiation. You can probably count of Weaver hitting the free agency market come the 2013 season.

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:38:13 +0000

Must have something to do with being Jeff’s brother.