The arbitration process within Major League Baseball is a fickle one, a system that pits players with three years of service time under their belt (and the few Super Twos with a bit less than that) against their own club in a battle over salaries. Teams who otherwise have their players backs and choose to hype them in outsized ways - thereby keeping their value on the trade market as high as possible - suddenly are tasked with finding the most damning ways to nitpick their performances in the name of payroll while also actively choosing to keep them part of their active roster.