The Boston Red Sox will soon have a perfect storm of young players reaching free agency. Before that tumultuous event is the various levels of arbitration that are now part of the system. I am sure the late Steven Hawking would be mesmerized by the complexities of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and subsequent fiscal machinations.
One such issue is the arbitration hearing itself when the dueling parties cannot agree on appropriate fiscal compensation. This is generally ignored by baseball fans unless the player is viewed as a strategic piece in the long-term preservation of overall success. For the Red Sox, it was Mookie Betts.