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The Milwaukee Brewers and LHP Brent Suter have agreed on a two year, $2.5 million deal, according to the team. The deal avoids arbitration with Suter for two years, and they came to an agreement 24 hours before his arbitration hearing for this year was scheduled. Suter will earn $900,000 in 2020 and $1.5 million in 2021. He'll receive a $100,000 signing bonus, guaranteeing Suter $2.5 million. Suter had asked for $1.25 million for 2020, and he couldn't agree with the Brewers after they offered $825,000. Suter also has a series of performance bonuses, each worth $50,000, that activate based on innings pitched in 2021.
Suter missed most of 2019 due to recovery from Tommy John surgery, but was stingy when he pitched. He went 4-0 with a sparkling 0.49 ERA in 9 appearances out of the bullpen. He threw 18 1/3 innings and struck out 15 batters. In his career, Suter has a 17-11 record with a 3.63 ERA over 223 innings pitched in his 4 year major league career. He has 178 career strikeouts over those 4 seasons. In 2018, Suter was both a starter and a reliever for the Brewers, going 8-7 with a 4.44 ERA in 20 appearances, 18 of them being starts, before injuring his elbow, resulting in Tommy John surgery.
Suter said of his contract that "A hearing was always in the back of my mind, I kept on thinking of things -- maybe we can add this or that to the case. The competitor in me was trying to give our best case possible. But I’ve certainly heard that it’s not the ‘funnest’ process going in there and hearing how bad you stink for an hour and a half. I’m glad we were able to avoid it. Like I said, it’s a day of super gratitude and a breath of fresh air, like, ‘OK, now we can just play baseball and forget about that stuff for a while and be with my teammates and coaches and great fans for another two years."
Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns said of Suter that "Brent’s been a great Brewer, and he’s someone who’s done everything we’ve asked of him, he's been bounced back and forth from Triple-A, he’s been bounced back and forth from the rotation to the ‘pen. He’s undergone a really unfortunate injury that he’s battled hard to get back from, and he obviously contributed a great deal to our stretch run last year. It’s a good day for us, a good day for him and his family. And when you get to those types of agreements that work for everyone, it’s rewarding for everyone. It's not by accident; he’s worked really hard at this. He’s perfected his craft and he’s improved his craft over the last couple years, and even if it doesn’t look exactly like a lot of other guys in the big leagues, he’s consistently proven he’s belonged."
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