Among the news items during Thanksgiving week was the allocation of the annual $50 million bonus pool for players not yet eligible for salary arbitration. Outfielder Andy Pages and pitcher Emmet Sheehan were the two Dodgers to receive bonuses under the system, which began in 2022 with the current collective bargaining agreement.

All 30 MLB teams put in $1,666,667 each to fund the pre-arbitration pool, which gives bonuses to players based on certain award voting and also the top 100 pre-arb players by a hybrid version of Wins Above Replacement, the formula for which has not been publicly revealed.

Pages earned $513,082 from the bonus pool, per Associated Press, and Sheehan got $248,666. Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes was the top pre-arb bonus earner at $3,436,343, which included $2.5

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