Yankees Avoid Arbitration With All Eligible Players

I am a little behind on this as my job actually expected me to work today, what a concept I know, but the New York Yankees have now agreed to deals for 2014 with all of their arbitration eligible players. Last night the Yankees agreed with Francisco Cervelli on a one year deal worth $700K and now they have agreed with their other four players Ivan Nova, Brett Gardner, David Robertson, and Shawn Kelley.

Kelley has agreed to a deal worth $1.7625 and can earn another $25K if he appears in 55 games or more. Kelley was projected to earn $1.5 million in arbitration so he got a slight raise, good for him. Gardner agreed to a deal worth $5.6 million in his final year of arbitration on the heels of speculation that Gardner could earn as much as $8 million in arbitration. Gardner was initially projected to earn $4 million so he also got a nice little raise over 2013. Robertson agreed to a deal worth $5.215 million also in his final year of arbitration after being projected to earn $5.5 million. That is still a nice piece of change for an 8th inning man, although I expect him to be the closer eventually, before he heads into free agency. Finally Nova agreed to a deal worth $3.3 million after being projected to earn $2.8 million in arbitration. After an up and down season he did enough to get a raise so good for him.

I like to hear that none of our players are going to court for their cases, none of them are being greedy, and we now have a clearer picture at our payroll. Now if we could solve this whole Masahiro Tanaka thing...