PHOENIX -- The Brewers may have won their arbitration hearing against right-hander Corbin Burnes, but his frank comments on Thursday suggested that something may have been lost along the way.
Burnes, the All-Star right-hander and one of only three pitchers in franchise history to win a Cy Young Award, said his relationship with the Brewers had been damaged in the runup to Wednesday’s ruling, a win for the club that set Burnes’ 2023 salary at $10.01 million -- $740,000 less than he’d had asked for.
“You kind of find out your true value,” Burnes said. “You work hard for seven years in the organization and five years with the big league team, and you get in there and basically they value you much different than what you thought you'd contributed to the organization. Obviously, it's tough to hear, tough to take, but they're trying to do what they can to win a hearing.
“I think there were other ways that they could have gone about it and probably been a little more respectful with the way they went about it. At the end of day, here we are. They won it. But when it came down to winning or losing the hearing, it was more than that for me.”
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