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Originally Posted by Wilson8
Would the Royals owe Emilio Bonifacio the $575K if they had not settled before arbitration (January 17th)? If so then at that time KC must have thought they wanted him on the team. The Royals signed Omar Infante on December 13th so that should not have factored in.
Seems like a waste of $575K of the Glass Family Fortune.
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Yes, we would. If not $575K, then we would have owed him 1/6 of whatever the arbitrator ruled.
As soon as we offered him arbitration, we guaranteed that we'd have to pay him something, assuming no one else claimed him and assuming no trade. There's a deadline last year late Nov I think where we could either cut him or offer arbitration. So, obviously back last year we probably thought he was going to be on the team, but then after we offered arbitration we then signed Infante, signed Chen, and plans changed. If we had known that we were going to cut him, then we would have cut him last year and saved the $575K.