San Francisco Giants: Arbitration Avoided for Another Year

Prior to today, the San Francisco Giants only had one potential arbitration-eligible case in Will Smith. Arbitration is not ideal, but it appears the Giants will not be heading to arbitration for the fifteenth straight year.

Today is the deadline for players and teams to exchange arbitration figures. Will Smith and the San Francisco Giants never got to that point:

Reliever Will Smith earns $4.225 million from #SFGiants

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) January 11, 2019

At the start of this season, the Giants had five arbitration-eligible players. They agreed to terms with both Sam Dyson and Joe Panik at the non-tender deadline. Additionally, they non-tendered Gorkys Hernandez and Hunter…