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Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy is in his 36th year of covering the Cincinnati Reds, the longest tenure for any active writer covering one team. Counting spring training and postseason games, McCoy has covered more than 7,000 major-league baseball games, written close to 18,000 baseball stories and eaten enough hot dogs to give Babe Ruth indigestion.Home > Blogs > The Real McCoy | Cincinnati Reds baseball news > Archives > 2008 > December > 02
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Weathers offered arbitration
RHP David Weathers is the only player of eight Cincinnati Reds free agents to whom the team offered salary arbitration.
Weathers has until Sunday at midnight to accept or decline. If he accepts, he remains with the Reds and his salary will be determined by arbitration, a three-person panel setting his pay scale for 2009.
If Weathers says no, he becomes a free agent, but because the Reds offered arbitration they will receive draft picks from the team with which he signs.
The Reds declined to offer arbitration to free agents Paul Bako, Josh Fogg, Jerry Hairston Jr., Mike Lincoln, Kent Mercker, Corey Patterson and Javier Valentin.
PItcher Matt Belisle, third baseman Edwin Encarnacion and pitcher Gary Majewski are eligible for arbitration, but are not free agents. The Reds can negotiate and sign any of the three. If they don’t sign, the players can take their case to arbitration to determine their 2009 salaries - the Reds can sign them any time up until the arbitration hearing.
Weathers, 39, was 4-6 with a 3.25 ERA for 72 appearances, the 10th time in his 18-year career that he made 63 or more appearances.
The Reds were 38-34 in game in which he appeared and he posted a 2.45 ERA in his last 36 appearances as the team’s set-up man.
(See previous post for a State of the Reds blog)
