Friday's deadline to exchange salary figures with arbitration-eligible players came and went without much drama for the Orioles. By inking Dylan Bundy, Mychal Givens and Jonathan Villar to one-year contracts, the club avoided arbitration hearings with all three of its eligible players.
The financial figures of the contracts were not disclosed. And though Bundy, Givens and Villar likely received modest raises on their 2018 salaries, none had much leverage leading into Friday's 1 p.m. ET deadline, for which the Orioles took a "file and trial" approach.
Essentially, "file and trial" clubs approach the arbitration figure exchange date as a hard deadline.