This is a little encouraging. The Brewers made a solid commitment to their slugging shortstop yesterday when they signed Bill Hall to a four year, $24 million deal. By doing this, one of the bigger arbitration cases in all of baseball has now been settled.
After a solid 2005 campaign, Hall broke out and hit 35 homeruns in 2006. He also took 24 more walks then he did in 2005 and the end result was an OPS just short of .900. While he’s a slightly above average fielder at third, he struggled in the field at short and finished with -9 fielding runs above average and 17 errors (19 total when you count the two he made at third).
PECOTA has Hall having another nice season in 2007. His weighted mean average is .278/.346/.522 with 28 homeruns. I’ll definitely take that for $6 million per.
