The 2019 season is over for the Oakland A’s, but the offseason won’t fully kick in for a few more weeks. We’ll have lots of time to debate 2020 roster plans, between the A’s own impending free agents, and potential external additions from the open market, and trades, and so on, but Thursday brought one of the first key pieces of the winter puzzle: MLB Trade Rumors arbitration projections.
Players with a few years of service time, but who haven’t yet played long enough to reach free agency, become eligible for salary arbitration. They are still under team control, so the club makes the call on whether to offer them a contract and the players must accept that decision, but the actual terms of the deal still must be ironed out.