NEW YORK – After 112 players signed contracts for a year on Friday, leaving only 13 players on the way to exchanging proposals for eventual wage arbitration, in what has been a setback for discreet transactions, following financial havoc which has caused the coronavirus pandemic.
The agreements arose on the day the deadline expired for the players and clubs to exchange salary proposals for 2021.
Among the players who plan to attend hearings, the most prominent is the Puerto Rican Carlos Correa. The Houston Astres torpedo boat requested a $ 8 million increase to $ 12.5 million, while Houston has put $ 9,750,000 on the table.
Dansby Swanson, Atlanta Braves shortstop, was the other player to claim more than $ 5 million. He applied for $ 6,750,000, and was offered $ 6 million.
Another Braves player, pitcher Mike Soroka, wants $ 2.8 million, while the offer stands at $ 3,250,000.
Two members of the Los Angeles Dodgers monarchs would go to the hearings. Ace Walker Buehler asked for $ 4,150,000 and was offered $ 3.3 million. Receiver Austin Barnes is demanding $ 2 million, against a $ 1.5 million offer.
Among the American League champions Tampa Bay Rays, first baseman Ji-Man Choi asked for $ 2,450,000, but was offered $ 1,850,000. Relief Ryan Yarbrough wants $ 3,100,000 and the club raised $ 2.3 million.
Shohei Ohtani, a Los Angeles Angels pitcher and goalie, saw his average drop to 190 with the woodwork and threw a total of one inning and a third, after undergoing Tommy John surgery. He asked for $ 3.3 million, and was offered $ 2.5 million.
They also exchanged bids from the New York Mets and forward JD Davis ($ 2.47 vs. $ 2.1 million), Baltimore Orioles and Venezuelan Anthony Santander ($ 2.47 vs. $ 2.1 million), St. Louis Cardinals and right-hander Jack Flaherty ($ 3.9 vs. $ 3 million) and Colombian middleman Donovan Solano ($ 3.9 vs. $ 3,250,000).
For players who do not reach an agreement, hearings before a three-member arbitration panel will be held virtually from 1 to 19 February.
Francisco Lindor, Kris Bryant, Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager were among the 112 players who signed contracts for one year.
Lindor, a shortstop acquired last week by the New York Mets from the Cleveland Indians, won the largest of the deals, for $ 22.3 billion. The Mets hope to sign a longer-term deal with Lindor, to prevent him from declaring himself a free agent at the end of the season.
The Puerto Rican has said he does not want the talks to extend beyond next month, when the preseason will begin.
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In the opinion of Carles Nava, both the middleman and the team got what they wanted with their six-year, $ 80 million deal, on a day when they also avoided arbitration with the burly toletero and right fielder.
Bryant reached a $ 19,500,000 deal with the Chicago Cubs. You can also declare yourself a free agent after the campaign – for one day you were not eligible for it at the end of the 2020 season.
The antecedent lost an appeal of dissatisfaction that he filed in the past recess between campaigns. He then argued that the Cubs postponed their promotion to the Major Leagues as a rookie in 2015, to postpone for a year the time when he could declare himself a free agent.
Bellinger and Seager got big boosts, after helping the Los Angeles Dodgers win their first World Series scepter since 1988. Bellinger, a gardener and first baseman, reached a $ 16.1 million deal. Seager, the most valuable player in the National League Championship Series and the Fall Classic, bid for $ 13,750,000.
Aaron Judge, a New York Yankees right fielder whose injuries affected him for the second straight season, secured a $ 10,175,000 contract.