Late last week the annual salary arbitration filing deadline came and went across baseball. The Yankees had a very large arbitration class this offseason. Nine players combined for $53.2M in projected salary. The Yankees agreed to a one-year contract for 2019 with eight of those nine players. Those eight players combine for $45.4625M in actual salary, below their $48.1M projected salaries.
The one arbitration-eligible player the Yankees could not sign before the deadline: Luis Severino. Severino is one of 15 arbitration-eligible players who did not agree to a contract before the deadline and he is hardly the biggest name.