Thursday marked arbitration salary filing day in Major League Baseball, the deadline for teams and their arbitration-eligible players to file salary figures for the 2025 season. Specifically, the deadline to file is 8 p.m. ET, with a soft 1 p.m. ET deadline for contract agreements.
In short, the player files the salary he believes he should be paid in 2025, and the team files the salary they believe he should be paid in 2025. If they don’t agree, they go to an arbitration hearing where each side states their case and a three-person panel picks either the salary the player filed or the salary the team filed. Nothing in between. Arbitration hearings will begin later this month.
The vast majority of arbitration-eligible players sign one-year contracts for the coming season prior to the filing deadline. Only a handful actually file salary figures, and even fewer go to a hearing. Hearings can be contentious (Corbin Burnes said he was