Braves Avoid Arbitration With Eric O`Flaherty
by SCrebel10 on Jan 17, 2012 7:01 AM EST
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PrintLate last night, Mark Bowman tweeted that the Braves had avoided arbitration with Eric O`Flaherty by coming to terms on a one-year contract for 2012 worth $2.49 million. That's a big jump from his 2011 salary, which was $895,000.
While he'll certainly regress some in 2012 from his career best 2011 season, $2.49 million isn't a huge overpayment for a very good left-handed reliever.
With O`Flaherty and Martin Prado both avoiding arbitration and coming to terms on one-year contracts, the Braves have only two arbitration eligible players that are un-signed. Those two, Jair Jurrjens and Michael Bourn, are both Scott Boras clients.
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Sweet
Sounds good to me. Good to know EOF will still be around.
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it’s so cold now, i want spring training if for no other reason than it brings warm(er) weather
cold?
you must be nowhere near Atlanta. It’s as hot as Satan’s colon from May to October so I expect at least a little winter but this one has been one long continuation of November.
by crimsonqueen9 on Jan 17, 2012 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
according to MLBTR
EOF was projected to earn $2.6 million. I guess the Braves got a little bit of a deal.
by LEastCoastBears on Jan 17, 2012 11:56 AM EST reply actions
Not a huge overpay?
Is this an overpay at all?
by TKDC on Jan 17, 2012 1:34 PM EST via mobile reply actions
He's averaged 4.1m/yr according to WAR...
…with the Braves. And definitely something to be said for cohesion even if we endure a bit of regression (which seems highly probable). I wouldn’t say it’s an overpay at all.
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