You’re appropriate, however $30MM isn’t full worth for Ohtani, as we are going to uncover subsequent yr. He’s going to be MLB’s first $50MM-a-year participant. $30MM? He’s nonetheless considerably underpaid. The arbitration panel takes into consideration many alternative gadgets, and sure, earlier wage is considered one of them, however what we’ve got right here with Ohtani is the primary true, two-way participant within the arbitration period. He was anticipated to blow out any earlier arbitration information, each in whole {dollars} and in whole award.
One factor I’m certain of is the Angels and Moreno didn’t award Ohtani an additional $15MM a yr out of kindness. I might have cherished to have seen what either side put forth, and I additionally would have appreciated to seen Matt Swartz’s projection. We will speculate if he would have reached $30MM, however he would have obliterated $15MM. For one motive, the Angels wouldn’t submit an arbitration quantity that low for him. I believe either side acknowledged that is uncharted territory, in order that they had been sort of like, “uh, yeah, $30 million sounds good for us, how ’bout you?”
