This is a ridiculous stance for a fan to take. You aren’t paying him his arbitration salaries. Ownership is paying him. Why should you care? All it does is deprive you of seeing a good player.
Pros of artificially holding down deserving player until after Super 2 deadline:
1. Reinsdorf saves money on one less year of arbitration
Cons:
1. Deserving player realizes cheap team is manipulating him and isn’t willing to sign extension with team before free agency.
2. Fans don’t get to see good player on field for 2 months.
3. Player loses at least two months of MLB experience, which could be useful in getting him acclimated to the big leagues, thus potentially slowing down time until contention.
4. Fans realize that a team with no salary obligations that is still cheap enough to hold a deserving player down to avoid an extra year of arbitration is probably not going to be willing to spend the necessary money to build a consistent winner, whether that means trades for highly paid players, contract extensions for deserving home grown players, or outside free agents.
Other than that, I think the idea to hold him down in AAA for nearly another full season is brilliant.