BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJOR LEAGUES : Gomez Loses Case, Gets $375,000 Raise
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<i> Associated Press</i>
In the first baseball salary case ever decided by three arbitrators, the Baltimore Orioles beat third baseman Leo Gomez on Saturday.
The three-person panel, which heard the case Friday, awarded Gomez $925,000, up from $550,000 last year. He had asked for $1.85 million, double the Orioles’ offer.
Usually, one arbitrator decides a case. But owners proposed a shift to three-person panels during the labor negotiations this spring and the sides agreed as a test to schedule panels in three cases this spring.
Gomez batted .274 last season with 15 home runs and 56 runs batted in.
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