As reported by Clark Spencer, Wei-Yin Chen has chosen not to exercise his player opt-out, and will return to the Fish for the foreseeable future.
The 32 year-old Taiwanese south paw won’t be doing Derek Jeter any favors. The Captain is notoriously on a mission to cut the Marlins payroll for 2018 down to $90 million. Now that Chen has chosen sit down at the table and claim his 2018 salary of $12.6 million, that mission just became slightly more complicated.
Chen signed on to a five year deal worth $80 million in 2016.