Victor Reyes is projected to receive a one year contract valued at $1.25 to $1.3 million for the 2022 season, depending which forecast you’re looking at. But that money wouldn’t have been guaranteed unless he made the opening day roster- until this year.
Under the terms of major league baseball’s recently expired collective bargaining agreement, players who headed down the path to arbitration were given non guaranteed one year contracts that became guaranteed on opening day, once they were safely on the team’s 26 man major league roster. But this year, there’s a twist to the rules that makes their salaries guaranteed if they agree to take the team’s offer without going to a hearing.