\n\tThursday is the deadline for Major League Baseball teams to exchange salary figures with their arbitration-eligible players. The Miami Marlins avoided arbitration hearings in 2025, agreeing to one-year deals with each member of their class. That is once again the likely outcome for them heading into 2026.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tIt is customary for arb-eligible players to receive salary increases from the previous year, even if they struggled. Left-hander Braxton Garrett is an exception\u2014after missing the entire 2025 campaign due to Tommy John surgery, he has settled for an identical salary this season.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThese negotiations can sometimes culminate in multi-year contract extensions. Marlins fans shouldn’t get their hopes up, though, as the club has not extended a single player since March 2022 (Richard Bleier).\n<\/p>\n
\n\tEdward Cabrera would’ve been the highest earner in Miami’s 2026 arbitration class\u2014MLB Trade Rumors projected<\/a> him for $3.7 million. Following Wednesday’s trade<\/a> sending Cabrera to the Chicago Cubs, this is poised to be one of the cheapest classes in MLB.\n<\/p>\n \n\tHearings for players who don’t reach deals will take place in Arizona between January 26 and February 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday is the deadline for Major League Baseball teams to exchange salary figures with their arbitration-eligible players. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2395],"tags":[8217,1114,5,8218,1111,1816,1714,778,58,4171,4,1073],"class_list":{"0":"post-512509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-andrew-nardi","9":"tag-anthony-bender","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-braxton-garrett","12":"tag-calvin-faucher","13":"tag-marlins","14":"tag-max-meyer","15":"tag-miami","16":"tag-miami-marlins","17":"tag-miamimarlins","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-ryan-weathers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115863080616162886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}