MILWAUKEE -- Three Brewers players filed for arbitration on Tuesday, the latest formality in what has become an increasingly deliberate process of setting salaries for eligible players.
The next deadline for shortstop Jean Segura and pitchers Wily Peralta and Will Smith is Friday, when those players and others around baseball who remain unsigned will exchange salary proposals with their team and set on a course that could lead to an arbitration hearing in February.
"The process seems to move slower and slower and later and later each year," said Brewers general manager David Stearns, who has been intimately involved in arbitration matters for years, including during his stint in the Commissioner's Office aiding teams through the process.