Last night was the tender deadline for arbitration and pre-arbitration eligible players and the announced they’ve agreed to terms with two of those players.
Six weeks ago, I looked at MLB Trade Rumor’s arbitration projections for their six eligible players, Mike Yastrzemski and Austin Slater. That site’s projection system has been pretty accurate over the years, and for these two players, they had them pegged at $7.3 million and $3.6 million, respectively.
In perhaps a sign that MLBTR’s processes might need to be adjusted, the Giants actually agreed to terms higher than those projections. Yastrzemski got a 1-year, $7.