Kanadesaga

02/22/2008 12:51 PM ET
Marlins' series in Puerto Rico is off
Three-game set against Mets to remain in South Florida

JUPITER, Fla. -- All 81 Marlins home games in 2008 will be played at Dolphin Stadium after all.
Plans to move a three-game series with the Mets from July 28-30 to Puerto Rico officially were quashed on Friday.

Now, instead of facing the Mets in San Juan, the games will be played in South Florida.

Until the matter was resolved, the Marlins withheld selling tickets for the late-July series. Now, those tickets will be on sale.

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Kanadesaga

Perez wins arbitration case
Hearing was first for Mets since Cone's 16 years ago
By Marty Noble / MLB.com


PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Pitcher Oliver Perez won his salary arbitration case against the Mets on Friday and will be paid $6.5 million this year rather than the team's offer of $4,725,000.
The left-hander went 15-10 with a 3.56 ERA last year, when he made $2,425,000. The decision was made by arbitrators Steven Wolf, Robert Bailey and Elizabeth Neumeier, who heard the case Thursday in St. Petersburg.

On Thursday, Philadelphia first baseman Ryan Howard became the first player to win in arbitration this year when he was awarded $10 million instead of the team's figure of $7 million.

Owners won six of the eight cases this year.

Perez's case was his first and the Mets' 20th -- but their first since 1992, when the club lost its case against David Cone, marking the second time in three years Cone and his agent Steve Fehr had prevailed.


In winning, Cone was awarded $4.25 million, $1.25 million more than the Mets had submitted for the hearing. Cone's salary was, until Friday, the highest awarded a Mets player in arbitration.

The stakes were considerably higher on Thursday, as the Mets argued against Scott Boras, Perez's agent, even when adjusted for 20 years of real-world inflation. Perez, who earned $2.325 million last season, will now receive a raise that almost exceeds Cone's award in itself -- $4.175 million.

The Mets have won 11 of the 20 cases in their history. Boras' clients have won 19 of 44 cases.

Mets' arbitration cases
Year Name Player Club Outcome
1979 Dale Murray $100,000 $72,000 club
Joel Youngblood $91,000 $78,000 club
1983 Mookie Wilson $325,000 $215,000 player
1985 Doug Sisk $470,000 $275,000 club
Jesse Orosco $850,000 $650,000 club
1986 Tim Teufel $350,000 $200,000 club
Ron Darling $615,000 $440,000 club
Wally Backman $425,000 $325,000 club
Ed Lynch $530,000 $400,000 player
1987 Ron Darling $1,050,000 $800,000 player
Kevin McReynolds $825,000 $625,000 club
1988 Dwight Gooden $1,650,000 $1,400,000 club
1989 Lenny Dykstra $575,000 $455,000 player
Tim Teufel $590,000 $470,000 player
1990 David Cone $1,300,0000 $815,000 player
Jeff Musselman $315,000 $220,000 player
1992 Jeff Innis $650,000 $355,000 club
Kevin Elster $1,350,000 $760,000 club
David Cone $4,250,000 $3,000,000 player
2008 Oliver Perez $6,700,000 $4,725,000 player
Players won nine cases; the club won 11.

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Sean

I got Mets @ Cubs tickets. Hope to see Johan get rocked at Wrigley!

Go Cubs!

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Kanadesaga

Care to back that enthusiasm up?

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Sean

You better pray that Reyes gets on base otherwise I doubt you manufacture a run. He's your only wheels.

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Kanadesaga

Reyes isn't even the fastest on the team, Chavez, Anderson, they all can fly. Gotay. Besides with the big bats, Beltran, Delgado, Wright, Alou, manufacturing runs may not be aproblem. Still haven't answered my question about your enthusiasm.

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Heretic

Crass Mallows: "You know I'm a huge fan of baseball, but as a seedling I wasn't able to play. I had pleant of limbs and made good catches, and if the pitcher threw just right I could bat that thing outta the park, but on run and throw my points were diplorable. On this issue of who has the speed to get onbase who would you rate as the quickest?"





Roadrunner: "MEEP, MEEP!!"

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"In space no one can hear you scream. in D.C. it won't matter..." -Clinton Resurrection: The Alien Queen lives!

Sean

You obviously haven't realized that the wind blows in during April and most of May and with the wind chill factor... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Alou's going to what, play 80 games and hit ten dingers? Wright and Beltran will connect for their 30 or so, but not April in Chicago. April in Chicago is all small ball and pitching, pitching, pitching. If you get lucky the two quality starting pitchers you have will go back to back for that short series then there'll be a better chance I'll have to eat my words.

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W.M.DEEEZ

Ummm...a little CONTEXT would be nice with that sig.!!!

Especially since I was defending you at the time




What the hell did Kanadesaga do now?

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Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got til it's gone

Sean

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