Washington’s Nationals are now 8-3 in arbitration cases since baseball returned to D.C. in 2005, having “prevailed” in their case with new reliever Kyle Barraclough, who came over this past October in a trade with the Miami Marlins. The two sides weren’t too far apart in their respective salary figures going into the process, with the 28-year-old right-hander’s side seeking $2M while the team offered a raise to $1.725M from the $1.113M he earned in 2018.
Barraclough’s case was the second with the Nationals this winter, after the arbitration panel ruled in the team’s favor in deciding that Michael A.