From Tony Jackson at ESPNLosAngeles.com
"My salary is increasing each year," Ethier said. "I would say the likeliness of me being here beyond this year, it's not just my decision. ... I have been kind of lucky to be in one spot in baseball for as long as I have been, for six years now. That is a long time to be in one city playing for one team. There is no inclination now other than to go out and play this year and see what we've got.
"If I don't play well, we have seen them non-tender guys here. If you do play well, sometimes they don't offer those guys arbitration because their salaries are too high."
As I was reading the article I had all I had all kinds of things floating through my head and then as I got to my computer I see that Mike at MSTI pretty much said them all. Like he said, there is 0% chance Ethier gets non-tendered.
I do wonder if this bubbling malcontent makes Colletti take a different view on the future of the Dodger outfield. If Ethier really doesn't want to be in LA then now would be a good time to look into trade options, while his value is the highest. Maybe X-Paul will be sticking around a little longer, worse things could happen.
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