Friday brought a major deadline in the arbitration process, as any players who hadn’t yet settled on new contracts had to exchange salary demands with their teams. The Oakland A’s agreed to terms with four arbitration-eligible players on Friday, the team announced, leaving only one player unsigned.
The rundown:
And still awaiting an agreement:
All of these players were already guaranteed to receive contracts for 2018, so Friday’s news is just that they’ve now put numbers on those pacts. Graveman will either settle in the coming days/weeks, or go to a hearing in front of a panel to debate between the figures offered by each side.