Brewers pitchers and catchers reported to spring training on Thursday, but instead of the optimism of a new season, a series of damning comments made by Corbin Burnes captured headlines.
The Brewers defeated their ace in an arbitration hearing the previous day and will pay him $10.01 million this season instead of the $10.75 for which he filed—a difference of $740,000.
Burnes made his disappointment clear and said that his relationship with the team had been damaged as a result of the ordeal. He elaborated that it was not the outcome but the process itself that rubbed him the wrong way.