Walker, 33, had been struggling with his hitting this spring - batting just .225.
The Padres offered $2.75 million to Walker, who joined them in a trade with the Chicago Cubs on July 31st. Walker said he accepted arbitration for the first time in his career because he wanted to stay with the two-time NL West Champion Padres, and that he settled on his asking price so the Padres would have a tougher time trading him. I guess he never considered being released.
Walker hit .282 with three homers and 13 RBIs with the Padres and batted .278 with nine homers and 53 RBIs overall last season.
[San Diego Union Tribune]
3 comments:
Remember when Todd Walker was competing for a batting title with the Twins? Yeah, neither do I.
Funny, I don't recall that either.
Hey, did you see? I was atop the Randball Fan Frenzy board yesterday before NCU effed everything up for me. Damn it.
I did notice that ... but you can always make it up. Semis are worth 32 apiece and final is 64.
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