Dodgers extend Austin Barnes, avoid arbitration Mark Polishuk on MLB trade rumors and coming in from YardBarker.com…www.yardbarker.com The Dodgers have avoided arbitration with catcher Austin Barnes(Greensboro Grasshoppers) by agreeing to a two-year deal worth $4.3 million, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports (Twitter links). The contract breaks down as a $300,000 signing bonus, $1.5 million in 2021, $2.5 million in 2022 and another $400,000 in potential incentives based on games played. Barnes was seeking a $2 million salary for the 2021 season, and the Dodgers countered with a $1.5 million figure, but the new deal both avoids a hearing and locks…
It’s been 32 years, but the LA Dodgers are back on top, and World Series Champions….Austin Barnes, the former Greensboro Grasshoppers second baseman, but he he played behind the plate, as the catcher for the Northern Division All-Stars, in the 2012 South Atlantic League All-Star Game…. And Austin Barnes was representing the Greensboro Grasshoppers and his former skipper/manager David Berg tonight, as he caught the final pitch for the final out, behind home plate, as the catcher for the 2020 World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers…. It had not happened for the Dodgers since back when Tommy Lasorda, Oriel Hershiser, and…
Former Greensboro Grasshopper Austin Barnes, with a bunt and a blast that drove in key runs for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night, in Game Three of the 2020 World Series… The Dodgers topped the Tampa Bay Rays, 6-2, to take a Two-Games-to-One lead in the Best-of-Seven Series, and Austin Barnes produced a sacrifice bunt, and a Solo Home Run, that drove in two of the Dodgers six runs…. BIG night for Austin Barnes, the former Greensboro Grasshoppers’ second baseman, and now the LA Dodgers catcher…. Again, a BIG night for Barnes, who played for the Hoppers back in…