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"Arbitrators seem to have a fear of making big awards," Jon Heyman writes in Newsday. "Baseball needs independent arbitrators because the ones they use often rule as if they're afraid of being fired. One arbitrator was fired after voting in favor of Derek Jeter a few years ago, and another for voting in favor of Freddy Garcia last year."
If that's the case, then Eric Gagne's pique should be directed at Bud Selig, not Frank McCourt or Kim Ng.
Thanks to Rob McMillin for the link to this column, which passes along the off-the-record rumor that Dodger scouting director Logan White may lose his job.
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