{"id":466544,"date":"2026-02-08T14:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466544\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:01:16","slug":"orioles-beat-keegan-akin-in-arbitration-in-first-win-for-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/466544\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles beat Keegan Akin in arbitration in first win for clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Baltimore Orioles<\/a> won their salary arbitration case Saturday against pitcher Keegan Akin<\/a>, the first victory for teams this year after five decisions in favor of players.<\/p>\n

Akin was awarded $2,975,000 by John Stout, Jeanne Charles and Samantha Tower, who heard arguments Friday. Akin was seeking $3,375,000.<\/p>\n

A 30-year-old left-hander, Akin was 5-4 with a 3.41 ERA and eight saves in 64 relief appearances last season, striking out 59 and walking 33 in 63\u2153 innings. He had a $1,475,000 salary.<\/p>\n

Akin has a 16-22 record with a 4.48 ERA and 11 saves in six major league seasons, all with the Orioles. He can become a free agent after this year’s World Series.<\/p>\n

Players lead 5-1 with up to seven decisions remaining,<\/p>\n

Two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal<\/a> won his case Thursday, when he was awarded an arbitration-record $32 million rather than the Detroit Tigers’ $19 million offer.<\/p>\n

In other decisions, catcher Yainer Diaz<\/a> received $4.5 million instead of the Houston Astros’ $3 million proposal, right-hander Kyle Bradish<\/a> was awarded $3.55 million instead of the Orioles’ offer of $2,875,000, right-hander Graham Ashcraft<\/a> was awarded $1.75 million rather than the Cincinnati Reds’ $1.25 million offer and right-hander Edwin Uceta<\/a> will be paid $1,525,000 rather than the Tampa Bay Rays’ $1.2 million proposal.<\/p>\n

Two cases have been argued with decisions withheld until next week: Toronto left-hander Eric Lauer<\/a> ($5.75 million vs. $4.4 million) and Atlanta left-hander Dylan Lee<\/a> ($2.2 million vs. $2 million).<\/p>\n

Five players remain scheduled for hearings next week: Kansas City left-hander Kris Bubic<\/a> ($6.15 million vs. $5.15 million), Milwaukee catcher Willson Contreras<\/a> ($9.9 million vs. $8.55 million), Los Angeles Angels<\/a> left-hander Reid Detmers<\/a> ($2,925,000 vs. $2,625,000), Miami Marlins<\/a> right-hander Calvin Faucher<\/a> ($2.05 million vs. $1.8 million) and Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson<\/a> ($6.8 million vs $6.55 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Baltimore Orioles won their salary arbitration case Saturday against pitcher Keegan Akin, the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-466544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}