BOCA RATON, Fla. — The Astros have eight arbitration eligible players this winter whose salaries in total could exceed $30 million if all are tendered contracts, using the projections at MLBTradeRumors.com.
Chris Carter, who would be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive of the bunch to retain, may be non-tendered. But either way, arbitration negotiations are essential to this winter, and with former assistant general manager David Stearns gone, a new set of people are to handle those negotiations.
“We have a group of people working on it and it depends on what part of it you’re talking about,” general manager Jeff Luhnow said of arbitration.