The Oakland A’s entered the offseason with 10 players eligible for salary arbitration, and they tendered contracts to all of them. That meant the players were committed to the team, but at dollar amounts to be determined later.
Those salaries have now been settled. Four of them were taken care of in early December, and then on Friday the A’s agreed to terms with the other six eligible players. (Clink links for sources, including Bob Nightengale of USA Today and insider Robert Murray.)
That’s a total of $26.9775 million. The median estimates had pegged this group at around $23 million, but Chapman blew away his projection in his first tour through arbitration.