Twenty-seven players, meanwhile, agreed to contracts. A pair of players eligible for free agency after next season settled on large one-year contracts. Yankees officials and Jeter's agent, Casey Close, spoke throughout the day about a multiyear contract and made progress, according to a person familiar with the talks who spoke on the condition he not be identified. If the sides don't agree, an arbitrator would pick one figure or the other after a hearing during the first three weeks of February.
Most cases settle.
Of 90 players who filed last year, just 10 went through to hearings, with owners winning six. Click here to send your ideas to The Sun. An online publication of The Sun newspaper of Bremerton, Wash.,a Scripps Howard newspaper.