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Today is the deadline for those players offered salary arbitration to accept. For the Dodgers, this is most noteworthy in regards to Odalis Perez.
With the generous market for free-agent starting pitchers so far seeming to elude the lefty, Perez might decide to accept arbitration and guarantee himself a one-year contract with the Dodgers that could conceivably pay him almost anything in the seven-digit category. (Perez was paid $5 million for 2004, a season in which he then lowered his 2003 ERA by 1.27.) On the other hand, the security of a multiyear contract might prevail, no matter the dollars.
We'll know soon.
Update: Perez rejected arbitration, as did catcher Brent Mayne.
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