Minnesota Twins Afternoon Update: Pre-arbitration Salaries

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– Nastiness from Jose Berrios:

Or is Duffey’s nastier?

– Mike Berardino reported the pre-arbitration salaries of several players for 2016. Kyle Gibson was rewarded with an unusually large raise after his very solid 2015 season. He’ll make $50,000 more for a total $587,500. Gibson is in his last pre-arb year. Normally teams hand out very minimal raises over the league minimum for pre-arb players. The league minimum is $507,500. Pre-arb players have essentially no control or say over how much they receive. They can agree to a deal with the team or the team will unilaterally renew the player’s contract at whatever amount seems good to them. The third option is to sit out. Occasionally a team will offer a pre-arb superstar much more than is required, perhaps in order to cultivate good will for future negotiations

Per Berardino, Tyler Duffey will make $525,000; Danny Santana, $537,500 and Byron Buxton, $512,500. Numbers for the other pre-arb players on the Twins are not known at this time but figure to be in the same vicinity.

– Twins’ minor league spring training camp has gotten underway. Pitchers and catchers were to report today. Many position players have arrived as well but aren’t required to until March 8th.

– MLB has added the “neighbourhood play” to the video reviewable list. Brian Dozier is not in favor of the change: “Dozier said the neighborhood play — which allows fielders to straddle second base or glide past it while turning double plays — helps keep middle infielders from being injured from takeout slides. But he said now making sure to touch the base to get the out will be a main priority and changes the fundamentals of the double play”

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