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Cleveland Indians: Trevor Bauer wins arbitration case, makes history

The Cleveland Indians rarely go to arbitration. And when they do, they usually don’t lose.

Leave it to Trevor Bauer to reverse that trend.

Bauer and the team couldn’t settle on a figure for the 2018 season this offseason, but the young pitcher did enough last year to have the ruling go in his favor.

Bauer will earn $6.525 million this season. Result of his arb hearing (held last Thurs) was delayed due to similar ongoing cases. https://t.co/KQTuIsvxsP

— Jordan Bastian (@MLBastian) February 15, 2018

I think it is fair to say that the $6.