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PuffyPig · 07-29-2006, 11:09 AM

Safe to offer Bell arbitration? It'd be safer to have Milton pitch in a phone booth.

Bell's making about $4M? per season, so you'd have to offer him at least $3.2M per season. He'd accept, no question, and then you'd be stuck with a poor hiting thirdbaseman you have no use for, and couldn't be traded without eating salary. No thanks.

07-29-2006, 11:09 AM	#12
PuffyPig Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,677	Re: David Bell to the Brewers. Safe to offer Bell arbitration? It'd be safer to have Milton pitch in a phone booth. Bell's making about $4M? per season, so you'd have to offer him at least $3.2M per season. He'd accept, no question, and then you'd be stuck with a poor hiting thirdbaseman you have no use for, and couldn't be traded without eating salary. No thanks.