Blake Treinen’s unprecedented 2018 campaign has garnered him a substantial pay raise through arbitration.
The closer won his arbitration case against the A’s, rewarded with his desired salary of $6.4 million after the club had submitted a figure of $5.6 million.
Treinen’s projected arbitration number was $5.8 million. Not only did he surpass that, but the $4.25 million bump from his 2018 salary is the highest raise ever awarded to a second-time arbitration eligible player.
The 30-year-old right-hander completed a difficult task. In Billy Beane’s tenure with the A’s, which began in 1997 when he took over as general manager, Treinen’s case is only the second time he’s ever been on the losing side of a hearing.