With the Royals signing Greg Holland to a contract, Dayton
Moore’s perfect record of never going to arbitration remains. There is a fun
Twitter account dedicated to finding Facebook posts by Royals fans and
re-tweeting them; posts are chosen for various reasons, but they usually relate
to ignorance about some generally accepted or known baseball practice or
ignorance about baseball statistics and value. After Holland’s signing, many
posts were related to how giving Holland a 1 year contract is completely unfair
to him. For those who may not know, I’d like to explain a little bit about
baseball’s compensation structure to give more context around Holland’s
signing.
