1. 新闻来源：
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2. 新闻标题：
Rays Renew Blake Snell For $573,700
3. 新闻内容：
By Jeff Todd | March 10, 2019 at 12:12pm CDT
SUNDAY: Snell’s renewal is official, Topkin tweets. He commented on the team
’s decision (via Topkin), saying: “The Rays have the right under the
collective bargaining agreement to renew me at or near the league-minimum
salary. They also have the ability to to more adequately compensate me, as
other organizations have done with players who have similar achievements to
mine. The Rays chose the former. I will have no further comment and look
forward to competing with my teammates and field staff in our quest to win
the World Series in 2019.”
FRIDAY: The Rays intend to stick to their pre-arb salary formula with regard
to lefty Blake Snell, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports. It is
anticipated that the team will renew Snell’s contract at the price of just
$573,700.
Plenty of young major leaguers are playing at similar rates of pay, to be
sure. The minimum salary sits at $555K and most organizations stay close to
it, typically handing out increases measured in the thousands or tens of
thousands based upon service time and certain performance standards.
The collective bargaining agreement allows teams to pay pre-arb players
whatever it likes, so long as they earn at that floor level. Snell, though,
needn’t agree to the salary he’s allotted. And indications are he won’t,
preferring instead to make a symbolic protest.
The southpaw says it’s “disappointing” that he wasn’t rewarded with a
bigger increase after wrapping up a stellar season in which he walked off
with the American League Cy Young Award. He was anything but vitriolic toward
the Tampa Bay organization, but left no doubt that he’ll also be taking a
businesslike approach in his future dealings with the club.
Given his immense achievement, it’s not surprising that Snell would feel a
bit slighted. It’s true, as Topkin notes, that renewals aren’t terribly
uncommon for players who’ve turned in big seasons. But the examples he cites
also highlight just how stingy the Rays’ formula is. Josh Hader declined to
agree to the $687,600 salary that the Brewers’ own spreadsheets spit out.
Mookie Betts wouldn’t put his signature on a $950K payday after a season in
which he placed second in the MVP voting. The same thing happened last spring
with Carlos Correa, who was renewed at a cool $1MM.
It is understandable enough that the Rays wish to maintain discipline, as
Topkin explains, and are wary of allowing “an exception” to make it
impossible to “draw, and hold, the line” in future situations. Of course,
the team set its formula by fiat and can modify it at will to incorporate
whatever inputs it wishes. No doubt the data-savvy organization could imagine
a way to reward truly exemplary performance without opening the door to
otherwise unwanted expenses. A well-crafted incentive structure might even
make good financial sense, though the Rays have surely thought that through
already.
With some prior extension chatter having failed to gain traction, Topkin
writes, the expectation now is that the sides will go year to year in the
arbitration process. Snell will hope to follow Betts in making his employer
pay up through his three arb years:
“Hopefully this pushes me. Arbitration will be the business side, and that’
s what I’ll tell them. I think fair is fair. It all comes around in the end
anyway. At the end of the day, you get what you put in. I’ll be motivated.”
If you’re interested in learning more about the use of formulas in setting
pre-arb salaries, check out this old but good piece from Zach Links on the
subject.
4. 新闻连结：
http://tinyurl.com/y55248l4
5. 备注：
(1) 新科光芒赛扬得主Blake Snell本季薪水为$573,700，联盟规定的最低薪资为$555K。
(2) Blake Snell藉Marc Tokin表示：“光芒有权在劳资协商后，更新合约或给我接近联盟
标准的最低薪水，他们也有能力充分地补偿我，如其他球团对那些与我有相似成就球员做
的那样，而光芒选择了前者。我没有进一步的评论，期待与我的队友和现场工作人员一同
努力，赢得2019年的世界大赛冠军。”
(3) 报导提供其他球员的例子，Marc Tokin表示这也能看出光芒的公式多小气了。
A. Josh Hader婉拒酿酒人提供$687,600的薪资单。
B. Mookie Betts没有在红袜队提供$950K的薪资单上签字，在2016年夺下MVP-2后。
C. Carlos Correa在去年也同样没有在太空人提供$1MM的薪资单上签字。
(4) Marc Topkin表示：“可以理解光芒队想要维持规则，对例外案例有所考量，并为未来
划清规则，球队借由规则设定薪资计算公式，并可以更改成他们想要的结果。毫无疑问地
，精明的球队可以设想奖励有精彩表现的球员，而不会有额外不需要的开支。一个精心设
计的激励结构甚至具有良好的财务意义，光芒已确实考虑过了。”
(5) 根据Marc Tokin的消息指出，鉴于之前双方未能达成延长合约，目前两方便以年复一
年的仲裁方式走下去，而Snell希望能跟随着Betts一样在三个仲裁年获得期望的薪水。
Blake Snell：“希望这会激励我往前进，仲裁将是商业导向，这就是我要告诉他们的。
我认为公平是合理的。无论如何这一切都将到来。要怎么收获先怎么栽。我将会有动力
走下去。”
(6) Blake Snell去年在光芒队夺得赛扬奖的成绩表现(今年26岁；去年薪水：$545K)：
W - L ERA IP R ER SO BB ERA+ FIP WHIP
21 - 5 1.89 180.2 41 38 221 64 219 2.95 0.975