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Howard ends Phillies victory streak in arbitration cases
2008-02-21 10:22
by Bob Timmermann

Ryan Howard won the biggest arbitration award in baseball history, earning a $10 million contract today. The Phillies had offered $7 million.

Alfonso Soriano was awarded $10 million from the Washington Nationals back in 2006, but that Soriano lost that arbitration. Soriano experienced whatever the opposite of a Pyrrhic victory is.

The Phillies had won the seven previous arbitration hearings they had been involved in.

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2008-02-21 11:11:52
1.   Chyll Will
Serendipity?
2008-02-21 11:17:30
2.   old dodger fan
I assume neither the player nor management knows the figure the other submits until they have both submitted their figures. Has a team ever submitted a higher number than the player?
2008-02-21 11:19:20
3.   Bob Timmermann
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I am pretty sure both sides know what figure each side wants. They've been negotiating. And each side has to argue that Player X deserves total Y or total Z and then give reasons for why Y or Z is merited.
2008-02-21 13:37:48
4.   Bluebleeder87
test 1,2,3
2008-02-21 13:42:09
5.   Bluebleeder87
woo hoo! my 1st mobil post!

i'm sure Ryan Howard is VERY HAPPY as well...

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