Looming arbitration may force everybody's hands

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A Yank Mistake Not To Offer Pettitte Arbitration?
Published 11/30/2008 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
Via Ken Rosenthal: Monday, the deadline for teams to offer salary arbitration to their respective free agents, could offer the first true glimpse of how much the economic crisis is affecting the way clubs do business. In a better economy, most teams would not hesitate to offer a one-year deal through arbitration to attractive Type A free agents. Some teams would want such players back on one-year deals, even at arbitration-inflated salaries. Other teams, knowing that the players likely would depart for multiyear contracts, would offer arbitration to ...

Official Kerry Wood (And Others) Arbitration Deadline Day Thread
Published 12/1/2008 by Al at Bleed Cubbie Blue
... Maybe. You can bet that if he is offered arb, he'll accept -- and don't assume that's a budget-breaker, either. Wood wants to remain a Cub -- we all know that. It's more than possible he'll take less than an arbitrator would award to do so. The deadline for Wood to accept arb, if offered, is next Sunday, December 7. ...

Arbitration Rumors
Published 12/1/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
The deadline for each team's arbitration decisions is 11pm CST tonight.  In this post I am gathering up all the rumors about those decisions.  I'll add updates throughout the day.  Check out MLBTR reader predictions here and here. Ken Davidoff says Bobby Abreu, Oliver Perez, and Mike Mussina will be offered ...