Good news. The M’s took the plunge on an arbitration offer to Adrian Beltre, which will net them something like the 45th pick in the draft next year if he signs elsewhere. The odds of him accepting are very low. Around the league, the Dodgers...

I did a post over on FanGraphs this afternoon looking at the economics of an arbitration offer. I used Beltre as the example in the post, so if you’re curious about whether or not the M’s should offer him arbitration, that’s probably not a bad spot to...

If you remember back a few years ago, Jeff Sullivan and I attempted to give you guys the opportunity to do community projections, taking the idea of the Wisdom of Crowds and applying it to forecasting the performance of our favorite team. It was a...

The deadline for teams to offer arbitration is tomorrow midnight. Maybe… something will happen. Anything? -- This post came from: U.S.S. Mariner, and is copyright by the authors. This RSS feed is intended for the personal use of readers and not, for...

We’ve talked about this a little before, but here, from an article on Mike Lowell: Adrian Beltre, after a disappointing five-year run in Seattle, could come at a reasonable price for a team willing to chance that Beltre may yet have the thunder in his...