{"id":512530,"date":"2026-01-09T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/512530\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:57:12","slug":"yankees-david-bednar-getting-pay-raise-in-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/512530\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; David Bednar getting pay raise in arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees avoided arbitration with eight players Thursday, with three relievers acquired at last year\u2019s trade deadline among those receiving raises.<\/p>\n<p>David Bednar will receive $9 million, according to reports. Camillo Doval will receive $6.1 million and Jake Bird will receive $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Also avoiding arbitration were Jos\u00e9 Caballero, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Fernando Cruz, Luis Gil and Anthony Volpe.<\/p>\n<p>Bednar arrived from the Pirates at the trade deadline and was a dependable arm down the stretch, posting a 2.19 ERA in 22 appearances with 10 saves. <\/p>\n<p>The right-hander earned $5.9 million last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees acquired Doval at the trade deadline from the Giants and received disappointing results from the right-hander. <\/p>\n<p>In 22 appearances, he pitched to a 4.82 ERA with 11 walks in 18\u2009\u00b2\/\u2083 innings. Doval last season received $4.525 million.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.39130435;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38136145\" width=\"821\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/David-Bednar-.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees closer David Bednar will receive $9 million after arbitration.\" class=\"wp-image-38136145\"  \/>Yankees closer David Bednar will receive $9 million after arbitration. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Bird appeared in just three games for the Yankees last season after arriving from the Rockies. The right-hander earned $745,000 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>YES reported that Chisholm will receive $10.2 million. Volpe will receive $3.475 million. Gil will get $2.1625 million. Caballero will receive $2 million. Cruz will get $1.45 million.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm, who can become a free agent after next season, posted an .813 OPS with 31 homers and 80 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>It left the Yankees with settlements for all their arbitration-eligible players.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees avoided arbitration with eight players Thursday, with three relievers acquired at last year\u2019s trade deadline among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,1100,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-512530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-david-bednar","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115863135577187906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512530","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=512530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}