[Charley575]

So I feel like this sort of an oversight:
I don't like to go to arbitration with anybody. I always try to negotiate with arb. eligible players. However...
I have a Closer who has 3 yrs and 26 days of service time, so he's arbitration eligible, refusing to negotiate a one year deal for next season because he doesn't like the manager.
Oversight, right?
I mean, effectively the player is refusing to negotiate a new one year deal to play under the current manager and demanding an arbitration hearing after which he will be playing for the current manager on a one year deal. The numbers are irrelevant because the player will not even listen to any offers. This is not a rational act.
Players under club control should not act as if they are in a walk year when it's time to negotiate their salary for next season. The player seems to think he has leverage that he does not have, or at the very least, seems to think he can just walk away, which he cannot do, unless he wants to retire from baseball at the ripe old age of 26 and go coach his old high school team, or sell used cars, or whatever.

Or is there something I'm missing? Can anybody think of a rational reason why this should happen?