Every year, MLB Trade Rumors publishes a list of salary arbitration projections based on an internal model. Thankfully, salary arbitration isn’t something Red Sox fans need to get too worked up about. For as much as Sox fans complain about the Fenway Sports Group’s obsession with cost efficiency, I can’t think of a single instance when the Sox traded a player away because he got too expensive in arbitration, as some truly parsimonious teams make a habit of doing.

In fact, the Sox have only gone to arbitration a whopping three times in the last 23 years, getting there with Fernando Abad in 2017, Mookie Betts in 2018, and Eduardo Rodriguez in 2020. And this is a smart way of doing business, especially when you consider the bad feelings that the arbitration process can engender. After all, s

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