MLBTR will be keeping track of all arbitration-related figures, including settlement amounts, team and player submissions, and hearing results in our handy 2020 MLB Arbitration Tracker. The tracker is currently up-to-date for all 191 arbitration eligible players, including numbers for those who have settled on their 2020 salary. You can filter by team, service time, and signing, hearing, and Super Two status. Bookmark the 2020 MLB Arbitration Tracker today!
January 10th marks the deadline for players and teams to exchange salary figures. As ESPN’s Jeff Passan noted last January, all 30 teams now employ the “file-and-trial” approach to arbitration, meaning that if they don’t reach an agreement by the January 10th filing date, they’ll automatically go to a hearing no matter the difference. In the potentially contentious arbitration hearings, of which there were 10 last winter, a “panel of three independent arbitrators renders a winner-take-all decision,” as Passan put it. The player is in the room for the arguments, and the teams’ hardline stance means the battle can be over as little as $100K. Hearings run throughout the first three weeks of February.
Also of note: MLB Trade Rumors’ world-class arbitration salary projections, which Matt Swartz has been doing for us for the past nine years. You can check out the 2020 projections here.
This should be by team not alphabetical order
You can hit team on the top of the spreadsheet and it will sort by team
I can’t seem to get the tracker to fully display on my phone. It only shows me player, team and service time. Anyon have suggestions?
How about the Free Agent Contest Leaderboard? When will that be up, Mr. Dierkes?
It’ll probably be around New Years. That’s when it was up last year
Mike Montgomery agreed to terms with Royals.
If I recall last year it wasn’t up until New Years.
well there’s a name i didnt expect to be tendered again – Duvall. incredible Atlanta’s obsession with him.
Ehh. I get your point Darkside but he led of all Minor league baseball in home runs for the majority of last season. I think he already had 29 triple A homers before the Braves even let him play at the big league level last year. He also hit with some power right when he came back up. I think it was something like 5 homers over 4 days. He definitely tailed off though. From what I hear the Braves are planning on platooning Duvall and Markakis in left, playing Inciarte in center and moving Acuna to right unless there are more outfield moves. What shocked me more than them keeping Duvalle was cutting Culberson. He wasn’t a spectacular hitter or fielder but he was a very versatile swiss army knife and man did he figure out how to make sure most of his hits came at the most clutch possible moments. I don’t even know how many 9th inning walk off hits he got with the Braves over the last two seasons. I know he had at least 4 9th inning walk off homers in limited playing time before he ever put on a Braves uni so he clearly has a knack for it. He also would have only been about half the price of Duvall. Over the past 2 years with the Braves he has a batting average in the .260’s with 17 home runs. That’s not bad at all for a versatile back up utility player. Especially when you consider how many of those hits can at the absolute best possible time.
They should just ask Matt what they should get. He’s rarely wrong!
Nats’ Difo signed for $1M
This universal policy of file and trial over sometimes such a relatively “small“ amount as $100,000 I believe leaves some very hard feelings with some of these players that could cause them to give a big efff you down the road to their arbitration opponent teams. What is $100,000 to most of these team owners? Pay up now and it will pay off down the road. It’s pocket change
I remember reading before that both the team and the player often feel obligated to fight for it. If one side gets a reputation for letting $100,000 slide then it could snowball pretty quickly.
Last year’s numbers are the baseline for this year’s numbers.