This Friday is the Cubs Convention, and also happens to be the deadline for teams and arbitration-eligible players to submit their salary figures for 2023 (other key dates remain but this is probably the biggest one coming up). The gist is that if they can’t come to a compromise, the team submits one number, the player submits another, and then sometime in February before Spring Training gets into full swing, both sides meet in front of an arbitrator where the team says how much the player sucks and doesn’t deserve their number. Since the Cubs are a file-and-trial club these days, with very few exceptions (such as with former Cubs All-Star Willson Contreras, who I still think they should have kept around), they will go to arbitration if a compromise isn’t announced sometime Friday.
Eat at Arby’s: Or Just a Quick Look at the Cubs Arbitration Guys
