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Vance Worley Wins Arbitration Case

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Pitcher Vance Worley won his arbitration case against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday. The announcement came on Tuesday afternoon with Jon Heyman reporting the results first. The Pirates won their case against second baseman Neil Walker on Friday and Pedro Alvarez still needs to go to his arbitration hearing.  Worley will make $2.45M in 2015, after making $527,500 last year. He qualified for super-two this off-season, which means he will go to arbitration three more times before free agency. The Pirates losing offer to Worley  was $2M.

Worley had a 2.85 ERA in 110.2 innings in 2014, making 17 starts and one relief appearance. That was after posting a 7.21 ERA in ten starts for the Minnesota Twins last year. The Pirates purchased his contract from the Twins at the end of Spring Training and he made seven starts in AAA before joining the big league club.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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