Russ Ohlendorf, a right handed pitcher for the worst team in MLB, at least since Barry Bonds was allowed to leave two decades ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates, won one game last year and lost eleven.
The Pirates, whatever were they thinking? did not offer him a significant enough raise from the 439,000.00 shekels a year they were paying him. So he took them to arbitration and came out a winner. In '11 he will be getting paid 2,025,000.00 USD to weave his magic.
A Princeton man the boy did do his homework while in the Ivys. As a student, he penned a 140-page senior thesis entitled Investing in Prospects: A Look at the Financial Successes of Major League Baseball Rule IV Drafts from 1989 to 1993. He used sabermetrics to demonstrate the return on investment from the Major League Baseball Draft.
And he is right hander; imagine if he were a southpaw.
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