D-Backs, Montero avoid arbitration

"The Diamondbacks and catcher Miguel Montero avoided arbitration on Wednesday by agreeing to a one-year, $3.2 million deal. The contract comes in $100,000 above the midpoint of the numbers the sides filed for a potential arbitration hearing. The club filed at $2.8 million and Montero countered at $3.4 million. "Obviously I don’t want to go to arbitration," Montero said. "This is a good deal and I’m happy with it.""

The agreement leaves just Kelly Johnson to be settled with, among the 2011 Diamondbacks.

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Anyone else

As excited as I am about this? If it wasn’t for his injury early in the season, he could have had a pretty good season. (key words, could have had)

by DbackCardsFan on Jan 27, 2011 12:17 AM EST reply actions

Montero is a good catcher

we’re lucky to have him

does anyone know what the offer from both sides were for KJ’s arbitration?

by blue bulldog on Jan 27, 2011 4:12 AM EST reply actions

KJ 6.5 vs. 4.7

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by shoewizard on Jan 27, 2011 10:15 AM EST reply actions

let's sign him to a four year deal

we can give him 6 mil this year, then just go 8/9/10 for the FA years…which comes out to….4 years and 33 million

totally a great deal for us if we can get something like this done….

by blue bulldog on Jan 27, 2011 9:18 PM EST up reply actions

Interesting proposition

I kinda doubt KJ gives it up for 3/27 for his first 3 FA years, but then again, secondbasemen not named Chase Utley haven’t been doing all that well in the market these past number of seasons.

Playing around with selective begin end points and cherry picked stats……here are a couple of potential comps for KJ, upside being Jeff Kent from here on out….down side being kelly Gruber after age 29

Player WAR/pos OPS+ HR PA Age BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
Kelly Johnson 14.5 110 71 2573 23-28 282 507 .269 .352 .447 .800
Jeff Kent 14.5 106 107 2981 24-29 188 548 .269 .324 .455 .779
Kelly Gruber 14.2 107 103 2891 22-29 169 421 .264 .312 .445 .757

The worst major leaguer is better at baseball than I'll ever be at anything I ever do in my life.

by shoewizard on Jan 28, 2011 1:14 AM EST up reply actions

his OBP

is a ton better than those guys though…and that’s a lot of value

KJ also isn’t a slouch on defense (though i have no idea how he compares to those two)

by blue bulldog on Jan 28, 2011 4:09 AM EST up reply actions

Check out Kent immediately following this period

1998-2002

I’m just hoping for something like that……..KJ breaking out into a star.

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by shoewizard on Jan 28, 2011 8:54 AM EST up reply actions

I am very happy for Miggy!

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by Rockkstarr12 on Jan 27, 2011 7:41 PM EST reply actions

TrueBlueLA points out

The deal makes Rod Barajas the highest-paid catcher in the division. 8-P

"While Mrs. SnakePit watched one of the most highly acclaimed films of the year, I sat through a badly made schlock fest with absolutely no redeeming value. And it was awesome."

by Jim McLennan on Jan 27, 2011 8:08 PM EST reply actions

Yeah,

saw that on his twitter feed.

Mr. Science Boy

by DbacksSkins on Jan 28, 2011 1:19 PM EST up reply actions

Good for Mig

Nice all around, he’s consistant on defense which is great for a staff like ours so I am happy we got it done. As far as KJ goes I think I read that it was somwhere around 5-6 mill and we offer betwenn 3-4 mill but dont quote me on that for sure

D-Rock

by northam06 on Jan 28, 2011 2:48 AM EST reply actions