When do I have to pay the arbitration / autorenewal?

PurpleHaze34 · 06-26-2016, 02:15 PM

I've been searching around the forum a bit and haven't quite found what I'm looking for. I just started the off-season with the Brewers (actually it's still the play-offs but it's the off-season for my Brew Crew), and there a few players on my 40 man roster I'm going to try to trade or if I have to just flat out release. Guys like Chris Carter are headed to arbitration, and I have other guys that I'm on the fence on with auto-renewal contracts. If I cant' trade these guys my plan is to release them, but I want to know what my drop dead date is where I don't have to pay 2017's salary. Do I need all my decisions done before arbitration begins? before spring training? before the first day of the season?

Basically, what date do 2017 contracts start?

james17 · 06-26-2016, 03:38 PM

IIRC arbitration occurs a few weeks after the World Series.

RchW · 06-26-2016, 03:42 PM

I think autorenew occurs at the same time as arb hearings.

BIG17EASY · 06-26-2016, 03:45 PM

Look under league events for the specific date of arbitration hearings. You can either edit the offer to your player, decline to offer arbitration (which makes them a free agent after the hearings) or negotiate an extension before the hearing.

06-26-2016, 02:15 PM	#1
PurpleHaze34 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 19	When do I have to pay the arbitration / autorenewal? I've been searching around the forum a bit and haven't quite found what I'm looking for. I just started the off-season with the Brewers (actually it's still the play-offs but it's the off-season for my Brew Crew), and there a few players on my 40 man roster I'm going to try to trade or if I have to just flat out release. Guys like Chris Carter are headed to arbitration, and I have other guys that I'm on the fence on with auto-renewal contracts. If I cant' trade these guys my plan is to release them, but I want to know what my drop dead date is where I don't have to pay 2017's salary. Do I need all my decisions done before arbitration begins? before spring training? before the first day of the season? Basically, what date do 2017 contracts start?

06-26-2016, 03:42 PM	#3
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toronto ON by way of Glasgow UK Posts: 15,629	I think autorenew occurs at the same time as arb hearings. __________________ Cheers RichW If you’re looking for a good cause to donate money to please consider a Donation to Parkinson’s Canada. It may help me have a better future and if not me, someone else. Thanks. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit

06-26-2016, 03:38 PM	#2
james17 All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,305	IIRC arbitration occurs a few weeks after the World Series.

06-26-2016, 03:45 PM	#4
BIG17EASY Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,291	Look under league events for the specific date of arbitration hearings. You can either edit the offer to your player, decline to offer arbitration (which makes them a free agent after the hearings) or negotiate an extension before the hearing.