The Tampa Bay Rays and nine of their 10 arbitration eligible players all reached agreement on contracts for the 2017 season with the exception pitcher of Jake Odorizzi, who will now go through the process of an arbitration hearing sometime in February.
One of the Tampa Bay Rays ways of doing things is their self-imposed arbitration process, which they prefer to conclude their negotiating by the numbers filing date with one exception, that being if they are trying to negotiate a multiyear deal with a player.
Odorizzi made $520,700 last season. He was projected by MLBTradeRumors to make $4.