Intitial Rosters / Arbitration Salaries

[Athletics GM (Jared)]

The following is the process we will follow to finalize our intial team rosters:
- Use your individual team section on the board to create a roster post that you can edit as your construct final roster.
- When your roster is complete and you are sure that there are no more changes, please copy and paste the rosters into a reply to this post. Once you post your roster to this thread, do not make changes to it. I advise waiting until deadline day to post here.
- Make your best effort to list your player's salaries in your initial roster post. I will verify every contract when I populate the rosters to the league spreadsheet.

Arbitration:
MLB Trade Rumors has published their projections:
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/10/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2021.html
Please use these for any arbitration eligible player you are including on your intitial roster.

Please note that because of the shortened season there is significantly more uncertainty surrounding the arbitration process. MLBTR has issued three estimates for each player instead of one. We will be using the MIDDLE projection for our placeholder values. The middle projection is the most conservative and is likely to be higher than the final values. Given the amount of uncertainty around this process, please allow for some variance in the final values.

If you have questions, the best way to reach me is via DM on Slack. You can also send me an email or a PM on this board.

[Athletics GM (Jared)]

Just a quick note on arbitration estimates. I'm using the estimate value on spotrac rather than mlbtr as I'm inputting the rosters. This might result in a slightly different value than what you guys posted. The estimates tend to be a little lower than mlbtr. It's just way easier to use spotrac for everything as I enter these rosters.

In the end, it won't matter because these values are just placeholders and will be updated with the actual values when arbitration settlements come out.