News broke in rapid succession as today’s deadline for teams and players to submit their arbitration figures came and went. It’s always a much easier, less messy thing to come to an agreement on a contract for the upcoming season as this deadline approaches than it is to see the two sides submit figures that are significantly apart, as that only leads to an arbitration hearing that sees both sides airing dirty laundry despite, in theory, working together in unison going forward.
Fortunately for the Cincinnati Reds, it appears they largely will avoid such public kerfluffles this year, as they avoided arbitration with four of their six arb-eligible players.