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Chad Billingsley: Dodgers aren't pursuing multi-year deals
Dodgers assistant general manager Kim Ng told Tony Jackson of ESPN Los
Angeles that the club isn't pursuing multi-year deals with their three
arbitration eligible players, Chad Billingsley, Hong-Chih Kuo and James Loney.
All three players are arbitration-eligible for the second time and are
expected to receive significant raises. Billingsley earned $3.85 million last
season while Loney made $3.1 million and Kuo earned $950,000 (with an
additional $25,000 in performance bonuses). Jan. 17 - 9:47 pm et
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/playerbreakingnews.asp?sport
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Three Dodgers without deals
Updated: January 17, 2011, 8:20 PM ET
By Tony Jackson
ESPNLosAngeles.com
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With major league teams and arbitration-eligible players set to officially
file salary figures on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers still haven't reached
agreement with any of their affected players -- pitcher Chad Billingsley,
reliever Hong-Chih Kuo and first baseman James Loney -- but based on recent
history, it appears highly unlikely that the club will end up going to a
hearing with any of those players in early February.
In the decade that assistant general manager Kim Ng has been handling all the
team's arbitration cases, only two players have taken the Dodgers to a
hearing. The club won both of those cases against pitchers Eric Gagne in 2004
and Joe Beimel in 2007, the victory over Gagne coming the winter after he won
the National League Cy Young Award.
For now, Ng isn't making any predictions.
"We will have a much better idea in the next 24 hours [after numbers are
filed on Tuesday]," Ng said. "It's moving. We're progressing, but nothing is
final yet."
Ng did confirm that the club isn't discussing a multiyear contract with
either Billingsley, Kuo or Loney. All three are "four-plus" players, meaning
they have between four and five years of major league service time, are
arbitration-eligible for the second time and -- barring a multiyear deal --
will be arbitration-eligible again next winter.
Last winter, Billingsley avoided arbitration by agreeing to a one-year, $3.85
million contract for 2010; Loney by agreeing to a one-year, $3.1 million
deal; and Kuo by agreeing to a one-year, $950,000 contract that ultimately
paid him $975,000 after he activated a $25,000 performance bonuses by
pitching in at least 55 games.
All three players will receive significant raises no matter what the outcomes
of their individual cases are.
The numbers to be exchanged on Tuesday are binding only in the event of an
arbitration hearing, in which a three-person panel of arbitrators, after
hearing each side state its case, must choose between the figure submitted by
the player and that submitted by the club, with no wiggle room in between.
However, the player's agent and the club can continue to negotiate in between
the two figures right up until their hearing is held.
Two years ago, right fielder Andre Ethier, his agent and Dodgers officials
were actually in the hearing room sitting at the table, minutes away from the
start of a hearing, when they reached a buzzer-beater of an agreement on a
one-year, $3.1 million deal that became $3.2 million when he maxed out his
performance bonuses in 2009. Last winter, Ethier avoided a hearing altogether
by agreeing early on a two-year, $15.25 million contract through 2011.
Negotiations often speed up once arbitration numbers are formally exchanged
because it gives each side a clearer picture of where the other side stands
and sets up more concrete negotiating parameters. Virtually every agreement
that is reached between a club and an arbitration-eligible player, assuming
it's a one-year contract, will fall somewhere between those two figures.
Another unique aspect of going to a hearing: when arguing their cases to an
arbitration panel, the sides must limit their arguments to a player's past
performance, most notably from the previous season. But in attempting to
reach an agreement in advance of a hearing, the negotiations can also be
based partly on projected future performance.
For example, Alan Chang, the agent from Octagon Sports who is handling Kuo's
negotiation, would be free to cite the possibility that Kuo could become the
Dodgers' closer in 2011 if incumbent Jonathan Broxton continues to struggle.
To that end, any agreement between Kuo and the Dodgers might well include
performance bonuses based on, say, games finished, something that would
reward the left-hander if he did take over the closer's job.
This year's arbitration hearings are scheduled for Feb. 1-18.
Tony Jackson covers the Dodgers for ESPNLosAngeles.com.
http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/news/story?id=6031787
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