For those players the Arizona Diamondbacks did not sign before today’s deadline, an arbitration process looms that sometimes gets personal. Each side will submit their contract numbers and make their case before the arbiters, who ultimately sets the 2019 salary for the player in question.
Notably, under GM Mike Hazen, the Dbacks stuck to the “file and trial” strategy to this deadline. Basically this means that Hazen and company treats this afternoon’s deadline as a hard deadline, after which no further negotiation will take place prior to arbitration, though long-term extensions are occasionally negotiated right down to the wire.