Bleed Cubbie Blue · Jan 11, 2019
Cubs agree to terms with Kyle Hendricks, Kyle Schwarber, Mike Montgomery
Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesThe deadline for teams settling with arbitration-eligible players has passed. One of the reasons this deadline is more important this year than in previous years is explained by Craig Calcaterra at Hardball Talk:
Last fall, however, Ken Rosenthal reported something that got very little notice at the time: the players’ union believes that all 30 teams will take a “file-and-trial” approach to arbitration this winter. We don’t know that to be true, but the union thinks it so and Rosenthal, who is the best-connected reporter in the game and who tends not to put wild theories out there, gave it enough credence to run with it.