What’s the deal with arbitration increases?
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Am I the only one noticing massive increases to arbitration? For example, Logan Gilbert is supposedly going from $10M to $31M in his last year before FA. In reality, he’s likely going to ~$17M, not $31M.
The game is really suggesting he deserves to match Skubal from last year? Love the M’s but come on. Saw this issue across many many arbitration outcomes.
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Does the team budget increase enough to cover this?
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Budget increasing or not doesn't change the fact that arbitration numbers are astronomically too high. Logan Gilbert is not coming remotely close to $31-33MM next year. He won't even touch $20M next year in his final arb year.
Budget increasing or not would just be bandaid, it's still an extremely poor arbitration process and that throws off extensions as well. Bryan Woo, who will be arb eligible for the first of three times entering next year, will likely make $6M in '27, $12M in '28 and $18-20M in '29 before being a free agent. (I used Gilbert and George Kirby's arb numbers for the range he'd get)
That is a total of $36-38MM in those three years but the game wants $27MM on average for those three years or just over $81MM.
Arb process is completely broken.
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Dang, the patch doesn't seem to have helped. Still seeing insane arb numbers and thus insane contract extension prices (non free agent contract offers).
I wish they'd just do a deal with spotrac or mlbtraderumors and have them create a model. Their models aren't perfect but they are far, far better. If I ran business ops for SDS, I'd be on the phone with spotrac or mlbtr and offer to have the arb tile card be sponsored/powered by __. Let them own it, they are better, and you both cross promote the change so free marketing as well. Win/win for them and win for us with a more realistic contract process.
