The Orioles headed into Friday’s soft deadline for teams to reach agreements with their arbitration-eligible players for 2023 contracts with six salaries still to be resolved. They settled on contracts with five of them, including the outfield trio of Austin Hays, Cedric Mullins, and Anthony Santander. Only Austin Voth still has his contract unsettled.
Players become eligible for arbitration after three years of service time. Some players, like Santander, are known as “Super Two” players who qualify with more than two but less than three years. Each successive year in arbitration, players are paid closer to what they might receive on the open free agent market.