Orioles and Adam Jones avoid aribitration, agree to one-year deal

by Stacey on Feb 14, 2012 7:59 PM EST in News & Rumors

The Orioles today announced that they have agreed to terms with CF Adam Jones on a one-year contract, thus avoiding arbitration.

Jones, 26, batted .280/.319/.466 in 2011 for the Orioles, setting career-highs in games (151), doubles (26), home runs (25), RBI (83), stolen bases (12) and total bases (264) on his way to being named Most Valuable Oriole.

Dan Connolly tweets that the deal is for $6.15M with up to $50K in incentives.

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Glad to see this didn't go

to arbitration.

Baseball nerd

by Michael18 on Feb 14, 2012 9:18 PM EST reply actions

Good work Stacey

You totally called that number this morning. 6.2 million is really close to 6.15 with 50K incentives. now, let’s call it a day.

by dan o'hare on Feb 14, 2012 9:36 PM EST reply actions

one year deal for 6 mill

Not too bad. I’m satisfied.

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by Parkinglotninja on Feb 14, 2012 9:53 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions

pretty good deal...

rather have the doctor at this price than coco crisp for 7 million.

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by j.q. higgins on Feb 14, 2012 10:42 PM EST reply actions

Good deal

But no mention of signing him to a three year deal, or 4? Why not? He’s not a more valuable player if he can leave next year, and not more valuable as a trade chip with only a one year deal. Lock him up for 4, and if worse comes to worse then maybe he can be dealt with 2 years left on a fair deal. If he plays as usual, he’d be a fine CF for another 4 years at a bargain price, really.

by dsciswe on Feb 14, 2012 11:17 PM EST reply actions

There's rarely a bad one year deal in baseball

I don’t think they are trying to shop AJ, they just know that there is nothing like the pressure of a one year deal to make a player perform at their top level, so that they may demand major coinage next year…..or run the risk of getting half their salary instead.

Quasi-related: I was a consultant and I busted a$$ to have a shot at full-time gig, the 1yr deal worked lol.

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by OriolesOptimist on Feb 14, 2012 11:23 PM EST up reply actions

There's no such thing a "contract year" effort

I’ve read that here. I don’t believe it, but I’ve read that here.

If he blows up for a 30/30 type season might as well bid him adieu. There will be too much money coming from places where the idea of winning 80+ games a season doesn’t require massive amounts of magic mushrooms.

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by InfrasonicTom on Feb 15, 2012 10:40 AM EST up reply actions