Last night, MLB Trade Rumors posted their annual salary arbitration projection article which uses Matt Swartz’s formula and has come pretty close to nailing the final figure year in and year out. Last year, the San Francisco Giants had four key figures eligible for arbitration and none of them wound up going to a hearing but settled very close to the result generated by Swartz’s formula. • Tyler Rogers (5.034) — $5.5MM | ACTUAL: $5.25MM • LaMonte Wade Jr. (5.035) — $4.7MM | ACTUAL: $5MM • Mike Yastrzemski (5.128) — $9.5MM | ACTUAL: $9.25MM • Camilo Doval (3.071) — $4.6MM | ACTUAL: $4.525MM
This year, you’re not going to find a group of guys who have been around so long that reasonable pro or con arguments could be made, that they’ve been on the team for so long that you can’t imag