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Ryan Howard wins
By RYAN LAWRENCE
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Meet the Phillies new $10 million man.
Shortly before the Phillies clubhouse closed and workouts started Thursday morning, word began to spread that the team's biggest slugger earned a victory. Ryan Howard, who spent the previous day in a conference room in downtown St. Petersburg for an arbitration hearing, was ruled the winner by an independent panel of arbitrators.
"Any time you get into a room there's always a risk," Phillies assistant general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said of the decision.
"As we always said, we try to continue to get deals done, we negotiated all the way to the courthouse steps to get something done with Ryan - all the way up to the court house steps. Unfortunately we couldn’t get anything done."
Howard will earn $10 million, setting a major league record for an arbitration victory for a first-year arbitration eligible player. Last year, Miguel Cabrera, now with Detroit, defeated Florida in his arbitration case and earned $7.4 million.
The ruling also etched a new mark into the Phillies record books. Before Thursday the Phillies, who offered $7 million, had never lost arbitration case.
ryanlawrence21@gmail.com
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Meet the Phillies new $10 million man.
Shortly before the Phillies clubhouse closed and workouts started Thursday morning, word began to spread that the team's biggest slugger earned a victory. Ryan Howard, who spent the previous day in a conference room in downtown St. Petersburg for an arbitration hearing, was ruled the winner by an independent panel of arbitrators."Any time you get into a room there's always a risk," Phillies assistant general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said of the decision.
"As we always said, we try to continue to get deals done, we negotiated all the way to the courthouse steps to get something done with Ryan - all the way up to the court house steps. Unfortunately we couldn’t get anything done."
Howard will earn $10 million, setting a major league record for an arbitration victory for a first-year arbitration eligible player. Last year, Miguel Cabrera, now with Detroit, defeated Florida in his arbitration case and earned $7.4 million.
The ruling also etched a new mark into the Phillies record books. Before Thursday the Phillies, who offered $7 million, had never lost arbitration case.
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