The Orioles have agreed on 2016 contracts with Manny Machado and five other arbitration-eligible players. Zach Britton and Brian Matusz still remain unsigned ahead of Friday's deadline to exchange arbitration figures.
While Birdland is captivated by the evolution of the Chris Davis saga into the Yoenis Cespedes saga, one of the small but important deadlines of the baseball offseason is coming up on Friday. This is the day by which arbitration-eligible players and teams must swap salary requests if those players are still unsigned for 2016.
The deadline creates a flurry of activity as most players agree to deals before numbers are officially exchanged.