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The KC Royals usually avoid arbitration. But with big offseason decisions to make, how will they approach the process this year?
Major League Baseball Trade Rumors published its annual arbitration salary projections for all 30 teams, including the KC Royals, just Thursday. Their predictions have already spawned droves of Internet reaction.
The projections came with a caveat of sorts. Because baseball arbitrators generally limit statistical performance arguments to the immediately preceding season, MLBTR predicted three separate outcomes: one based on the 60-game 2020 season, one extrapolating 60-game stats to the regular 162-games, and one applied to players not in their first arbitration season that first projected raises based on 162 games, then adjusted to 37 percent of that number.