Chad Cordero prevailed in his arbitration case with the Washington Nationals. He make $4.15 million versus the $3.65 million that the Nationals were offering up. That works out to be about a three and a half million dollar raise for Cordero. Not too shabby.
Of course Cordero was off a bit in 2006 at least compared to 2005 at least by conventional standards. His ERA and WHIP were both up but his strikeout rate was up. PECOTA is projecting a slight dip at least if you look at his weighted mean average (1.17 WHIP, 3.33 ERA) but it should be more of the same from Cordero in 2007, just for a much higher price tag.