Bill Brink of the Post-Gazette reports that the Pittsburgh Pirates have agreed to a one year, $2.445 M deal with pitcher Charlie Morton. The deal allows the two sides to avoid Morton’s first year of arbitration. Morton was originally projected for a $2.1 M salary, per MLBTR’s arbitration estimates. The 2012 40-man roster/payroll page has been updated with the new amount.
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January 16, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Looks like the Pirates have been $100-200k above the MLBTR’s arbitration estimates on the few arbitration eligible players they have signed to this point. Not sure exactly what that means, just found it interesting.
January 16, 2012 at 3:58 pm
His time as a Pirate is officially dwindling. Can’t make more than minimum and remain too long.