With the Brewers losing their Corey Hart arbitration hearing today, they lost $650,000 in money that could've been used elsewhere in their operations. The Brewers hadn't gone to an arbitration hearing for 12 years, including Doug Melvin's entire tenure as GM, yet Melvin decided that a hearing was the best way to go. Was this worth the gamble? Reports stated that the Brewers stopped negotiations and withdrew their offer on Jan. 29, almost two weeks before the hearing. Usually the Brewers have been able to hammer out a deal at the very last minute, yet this year it seems like they didn't even attempt to do so. I feel they should've at least tried to negotiate a contract around the midpoint, like has been Melvin's tradition for so many years. By not doing so, we lost $300,000-400,000, not to mention any hard feelings that could result from the hearing. Even though I feel that Hart deserves the 4.15 million and not the 4.8 million that he will make next year, I feel it would've been in the Brewers best interest to make a compromise for the benefit of themselves and to remain on good terms with Hart. More importantly, Hart only has one more year of arbitration left, and could very well be non-tendered a contract after this year if he doesn't prove his worth, as he gets more and more expensive every year. This is the year that he must prove he's worth anything to the Brewers in order to stick as their starting RF in the near future.
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