Late last night, Mark Bowman tweeted that the Braves had avoided arbitration with Eric O`Flaherty by coming to terms on a one-year contract for 2012 worth $2.49 million. That's a big jump from his 2011 salary, which was $895,000.
While he'll certainly regress some in 2012 from his career best 2011 season, $2.49 million isn't a huge overpayment for a very good left-handed reliever.
With O`Flaherty and Martin Prado both avoiding arbitration and coming to terms on one-year contracts, the Braves have only two arbitration eligible players that are un-signed. Those two, Jair Jurrjens and Michael Bourn, are both Scott Boras clients.
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Sweet
Sounds good to me. Good to know EOF will still be around.
mebravesfan - January 17, 2012
baseball
it’s so cold now, i want spring training if for no other reason than it brings warm(er) weather
dank7 - January 17, 2012
cold?
you must be nowhere near Atlanta. It’s as hot as Satan’s colon from May to October so I expect at least a little winter but this one has been one long continuation of November.
crimsonqueen9 - January 17, 2012
according to MLBTR
EOF was projected to earn $2.6 million. I guess the Braves got a little bit of a deal.
LEastCoastBears - January 17, 2012
Not a huge overpay?
Is this an overpay at all?
TKDC - January 17, 2012 via mobile
He's averaged 4.1m/yr according to WAR...
…with the Braves. And definitely something to be said for cohesion even if we endure a bit of regression (which seems highly probable). I wouldn’t say it’s an overpay at all.
sgrapevine - January 17, 2012
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