Cut-down Arbitration For Raymond

When we looked at Mason Raymond a few weeks ago we said we'd know the team's intentions by at least June 25, the last day to qualify RFAs. It turns out we didn't need to wait that long.

This morning we learned Vancouver was using cut-down arbitration (the first time we've seen this move in the GMMG era) in order to reduce his $2.6 million dollar salary on a new one year deal. This would allow them to ask an arbitrator to reduce as much