Today was the deadline for teams and arbitration eligible players to exchange contract figures. The San Francisco Giants had thirteen arbitration eligible players to start the offseason, and back in October I reasoned that they should focus on eight of those players. About a month later, the team said they’d planned to retain nearly all of them.
They re-signed Scott Alexander and Mike Yastrzemski in November; and, after non-tendering Zack Littell, Jharel Cotton, and Jarlin Garcia, it left them with eight players, contract figures for which were agreed to today (MLB Trade Rumors arbitration figure prediction in parenthesis):
John Brebbia - $2.