The pre-arbitration extension is one of baseball’s popular new trends. But one might have slipped under the radar this offseason: the new deal signed by Tampa Bay Rays’ youngster Brandon Lowe. Late on March 19, Ken Rosenthal reported that Lowe had signed a 6 year, $24 million deal with Tampa

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In 2015, Jake Arrieta won the National League Cy Young Award. In a season when Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw had magnificent years, Arrieta was voted to have had an even better one. Let’s revisit some of his simple numbers from that year: 236 strikeouts, 1.77 ERA, 0.865 WHIP. Jake