Arbiters have dominated in favor of the Marlins of their arbitration listening to with infielder Luis Arráez, per Daniel Álvarez-Montes of El Extrabase. He’ll make a wage of $10.6M this 12 months versus the $12M he was searching for.
Arráez, 27 in April, is the very best contact hitter within the sport. Final 12 months, he struck out in simply 5.5% of his plate appearances, simply the very best price within the majors. Jeff McNeil of the Mets was second amongst certified hitters at 10%. Arráez flirted with .400 for some time however in the end completed the season with a batting common of “solely” .354. Once more, that was simply the very best within the majors, with Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr. second at .337.
The opposite components of his sport are a bit much less spectacular. He’s by no means been an enormous energy menace, with final 12 months’s 10 dwelling runs a brand new private greatest. His second base protection can be questionable. Defensive Runs Saved thought-about him to be 4 higher than par final 12 months however Outs Above Common had him at a dismal -10. However thanks largely to his bat, FanGraphs thought-about him to be 3.4 wins above substitute on the 12 months with Baseball Reference at 4.9.
He first certified for arbitration going into 2022 as a Tremendous Two participant, then with the Twins. He and that membership averted arbitration by agreeing to a $2.125M wage. He and the Twins didn’t comply with a 2023 wage previous to that 12 months’s deadline however he was traded to the Marlins previous to the listening to. He ended up beating the Fish in that case, incomes $6.1M final 12 months as a substitute of the $5M submitting determine.
Going into the 2023-24 offseason, MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projected him for a $10.8M wage this 12 months. The membership and the participant’s camp filed on both facet of that determine, however arbiters have to decide on one determine or the opposite and might’t select a center floor quantity, siding with the Marlins this time. Arráez will probably be eligible for yet one more cross by arbitration for his 2025 wage, after which he’s slated to change into a free agent.
