By Chris Quick on February 12, 2010
Our long national nightmare is over. Hot off the presses: The contract is reported to be for two years and $23 million. SI.com reported that Lincecum will receive $8 million in 2010, $13 million in 2011 and a $2 million signing bonus to be split between the two years. Narrowly missing arbitration, Lincecum agrees to [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, money, payroll, tim lincecum
By Chris Quick on February 2, 2010
Mark one more case off the arbitration list — the Giants have agreed to a 1-year deal worth $4,437,500 with closer Brian Wilson. The near $4.5M that Wilson agreed to is the midpoint between the Giants offer of $4M and the $4,875,000 that Wilson filed for. Wilson’s salary for 2010 represents a $4M raise over [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, brian wilson, byung-hyun kim, horacio ramirez
By Chris Quick on January 18, 2010
Not much Giants news going on this week. Basically everyone is waiting for the arbitration cases of Brian Wilson, Jonathan Sanchez, and most importantly, Tim Lincecum, to come through. However, the Giants have retained one of their bullpen pieces from last season. The team has announced that they’ve come to an agreement with RHP Brandon [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, brandon medders, relievers
By Chris Quick on December 2, 2008
Yesterday was the deadline for clubs to offer arbitration to their free agent players. This is interesting for a couple of reasons but the most important reason is that it might help us narrow the scope of free agents that the Giants intend to pursue. Brian Sabean said earlier in the offseason that the compensation [...]
Posted in General Baseball, Giants | Tagged adam dunn, arbitration, bullpen, free agents
By Chris Quick on January 19, 2008
The Giants avoided arbitration with Brad Hennessey by offering the reliever-slash-closer a 1-year deal worth $1.6M, a nice pay-bump from his 2007 salary of $400K. Hennessey had his best year yet in ’07 when he took over the closers role for most of the year after Armando Benitez was traded. He saved 19 games while [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, brad hennessey, bullpen
By Chris Quick on December 2, 2007
Nothing like arbitration news! to spice up the monotony of winter baseball. The Giants have recently made their decisions on who’s getting arbitration and who isn’t, from SFGiants.com: The Giants announced late Saturday night that they offered salary arbitration to third baseman Pedro Feliz, although this hardly assured that the free agent would return to [...]
Posted in Giants | Tagged arbitration, Pedro Feliz, Third Base, xavier nady
