Baseball arbitration is even dumber than you think
by Sam Fels from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#696BZ)
The idea of arbitration for determining a baseball player's salary has never sat right with anyone, other than maybe the front offices that get to save a few hundred grand here and there. There was a time when a few scribes would keep a scoreboard, and some still do. But the concept of two sides trying to come to an...