Jays and Frasor avoid arbitration

So much for not signing them to a deal after numbers are submitted. Frasor signs for 3.5M with an option of 3.75M for 2012.

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still a multi-year deal, no?

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by jessef on Jan 28, 2011 9:01 PM EST reply actions

I suppose potentially multi year yes…

Alright. He technically is still right…. and as we all know that is the best kind.

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by JohnnyG on Jan 28, 2011 9:03 PM EST up reply actions

this is better for the Jays than an actual 2 yr deal

I wouldn’t say it’s only technically multi-year. It’s multi-year if they want it to be and not if they don’t

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by jessef on Jan 28, 2011 10:35 PM EST up reply actions

Wait a second if you decline an option...

Don’t you get the compensation pick?

by T_Mizz on Jan 28, 2011 9:05 PM EST reply actions

Isn't that what happened with Olivo?

by T_Mizz on Jan 28, 2011 9:06 PM EST up reply actions

You can decline the option and still offer arbitration

They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.

by Torgen on Jan 28, 2011 9:06 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah but do you have to?

Because I could swear when Olivo’s option was declined we got a comp pick?

by T_Mizz on Jan 28, 2011 9:13 PM EST up reply actions

He turned down arbitration first.

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by JohnnyG on Jan 28, 2011 9:42 PM EST up reply actions

We declined Olivo´s option and offered arbitration which was declined by Olivo and gave us a pick…. Could happen with Frasor, too!

I like the move for the club option! And it looks like a tradeable contract,,,,

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by jaysfanfromeurope on Jan 28, 2011 9:28 PM EST up reply actions

I’m all for taking a firm line with signing deadlines, but it would have just been obstinate and silly to take Frasor to arbitration rather than split the difference on such a small gap with Frasor. And getting a club option is great, as strengthens the club’s should we want to trade him. Good job AA.

by jabalong on Jan 28, 2011 10:30 PM EST reply actions

good deal

cheap, good reliever for two years if we want him. he should earn his contract pretty easily – he was worth over 4M last season, and only once since 2007 would he not have been worth 3.5M

by benk on Jan 28, 2011 11:20 PM EST reply actions

Excellent to have Frasor back at $3.5 million - May get something good back by trade deadline time too

So meet me in the middle well, come on, let’s make up a dance and we’ll agree to call it the compromise.

by Minor Leaguer on Jan 29, 2011 1:10 AM EST reply actions

Is there a buyout that comes attached with the option?

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by leafsfan4life94 on Jan 29, 2011 11:16 AM EST reply actions

Not sure, not in the press release

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by JohnnyG on Jan 29, 2011 12:01 PM EST up reply actions

Seems like a nice deal.

Keeping ~~Mrs.~~ Mr. Frasor in Toronto is very good for the team’s ~~WAG~~ WAR factor I think. ^^

by hansdampf on Jan 29, 2011 11:19 AM EST reply actions

Jason looks angry here

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by jessef on Jan 29, 2011 12:51 PM EST reply actions

He wanted the blonde.

"Alex Ovechkin! Do you know how much that Russian would pay you to be picked first? And think of the afterparties! C’mon James you have to use some forethought here!" - TSN sportsanchor Darren Dutchyshen to James Duthie on who he would pick first were he all-star game captain.

by Rather Bengt on Jan 29, 2011 3:03 PM EST up reply actions