Moneyball 2020 Arbitration Settlements

The arbitration settlements are in. Here is the list of arbitration decisions. No one went over budget, so we have a year free of any doing incidents.

Arbitration Settlement Salary
Bader, Harrison $5.92
Wendle, Joey $4.35
Sano, Miguel $2.18
Renfroe, Hunter $1.22
Goodrum, Niko $2.50
Candelario, John $6.67
DeJong, Paul $2.41
Hoskins, Rhys $3.70
Canha, Mark $5.26
Conforto, Michael $7.75
Cooper, Garrett $2.88
Shaw, Travis $2.01
Urshela, Gio $5.41
Buxton, Byron $6.44
Nimmo, Brandon $4.81
Devers, Rafael $2.61
Albies, Ozzie $3.78
Story, Trevor $7.34
Smith, Mallex $0.50
Caratini, Victor $2.09
Gurriel, Yuli $1.93
Santana, Danny $0.50
Pinder, Chad $1.43
Choi, Ji-Man $1.92
Happ, Ian $6.19
Dozier, Hunter $2.19
Bregman, Alex $4.52
Marte, Ketel $3.83
Gonzales, Marco $6.00
Duffey, Tyler $4.22
Flaherty, Jack $0.94
Marquez, German $3.83
Lopez, Reynaldo $0.50
Freeland, Kyle $0.96
German, Domingo $2.00
Pagan, Emilio $2.26
Lugo, Seth $0.91
Garrett, Amir $1.41
Green, Chad $3.30
Diaz, Edwin $3.04
Gray, Jon $0.90
Smith, Caleb $2.00
Musgrove, Joe $2.43
Stephenson, Robert $2.00
Pivetta, Nick $0.50
Bassitt, Chris $2.96
Mengden, Daniel $2.00
Martin, Chris $5.00
Drake, Oliver $1.88
Montas, Frankie $0.50
Garcia, Jarlin $3.65
Robles, Hansel $0.50

Phil, I haven't checked other people's rosters but there are some errors with mine. I think you underestimated my true salary cap hit.

I think you forgot to apply salary minimums for arbitration eligible players, as one potential error.

For example, Jon Gray was offered arb3. His minimum salary should be $4 by rule, rather than the .90 cent card value. That's my understanding anyway. I think there are similar additional errors -- Mallex Smith should receive the min arb2 salary of $3M rather than 500k.

I have several players in that boat. By my calculations my salary cap hit should be slightly above $136M not the $127 M that you have listed. Still below the cap value so no penalty incurred, but less space for add ons etc. I suspect similar errors are present with the other teams' calculations too.

Phil, I haven't checked other people's rosters but there are some errors with mine. I think you underestimated my true salary cap hit.

I think you forgot to apply salary minimums for arbitration eligible players, as one potential error.

For example, Jon Gray was offered arb3. His minimum salary should be $4 by rule, rather than the .90 cent card value. That's my understanding anyway. I think there are similar additional errors -- Mallex Smith should receive the min arb2 salary of $3M rather than 500k.

That's the way the original arbitration rule worked. The rule was changed and now players in arbitration are paid whatever their SOM card comes in at. Jon Gray's salary for 2020 is $900,000. The only time the minimums are applied to player in arbitration is if he doesn't receive a SOM card for that year.

Section 9.11 ARBITRATION: A player with an expiring contract who has more than 3 years and up to 6 years of service time qualifies for arbitration if the owner declines to release the player, offer a contract extension, or to renew the player at the Major League Minimum Salary. If the owner chooses arbitration the player will be renewed at the salary established for his SOMO card price for the following season. If the player does not have a SOM card to settle the arbitration decision, the player is awarded the league minimum salary based on years of service (i.e. $2 mil for arb1, $3 mil for arb 2, etc). The owner must decline to offer a contract extension prior to the release of the SOM card set for the upcoming season or the player will be automatically renewed for one year at their qualified major league minimum salary as determined in Sections 9.05 and 9.06 above.

Ok, thanks old. I guess forgot about that change.

Here are the arbitration settlements for 2023. No one went over budget so we are good for the prospect draft which I will set up to start on Monday.


Alvarez, Yordan lf arb2 $7,030,000.00
Biggio, Cavan 2b arb2 $3,190,000.00
Ferguson, Caleb rp arb3 $900,000.00
Fletcher, David of arb3 $570,000.00
Gallegos, Giovanny rp arb3 $920,000.00
Gallen, Zac sp arb2 $5,240,000.00
Gurriel Jr., Lourdes lf arb2 $1,000,000.00
Hiura, Keston 2b arb2 $3,000,000.00
Kelly, Carson c arb3 $1,320,000.00
Laureano, Ramon cf arb3 $990,000.00
Loaisiga, Jonathan sp arb3 $4,000,000.00
Martin, Brett rp arb2 $3,000,000.00
McNeil, Jeff lf arb3 $2,710,000.00
Mercado, Oscar cf arb2 $3,000,000.00
Newman, Kevin ss arb3 $940,000.00
Nola, Austin c arb2 $500,000.00
O'Hearn, Ryan 1b arb3 $2,660,000.00
Peralta, Freddy rp arb3 $4,580,000.00
Rainey, Tanner rp arb2 $3,000,000.00
Rengifo, Luis 2b arb2 $3,280,000.00
Robles, Victor cf arb3 $2,540,000.00
Sims, Lucas rp arb3 $1,920,000.00
Tellez, Rowdy 1b arb3 $720,000.00
Torres, Gleyber ss arb3 $4,100,000.00
Turnbull, Spencer sp arb3 $570,000.00
Urias, Luis 3b arb3 $950,000.00
Walker, Christian 1b arb3 $8,220,000.00