With spring training roughly a month away, the Yankees avoided arbitration with four players on Thursday.
Teams and arbitration-eligible players had until 8 p.m. to file arbitration numbers with the league. Instead of potentially going to multiple hearings, however, the Yankees ultimately settled with Devin Williams, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Clarke Schmidt and Scott Effross.
Williams, acquired from the Brewers earlier this offseason, will make $8.6 million in 2025, according to multiple reports. The Yankees’ new closer ended up with a notably larger sum than the $7.7 million MLB Trade Rumors projected he’d get in free agency.
Chisholm will make $5.85 million in his first full season with the Yankees, according to multiple reports. That’s a bit lower than the $6.9 million MLB Trade Rumors predicted he’d get in arbitration.
Schmidt, meanwhile, agreed to a $3.6 million salary, per ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. That’s a slight uptick from the $3.5 million he was projected to get.
Effross settled for $800,000, per Fansided’s Robert Murray. That’s just $100,000 less than projected.
One arbitration-eligible Yankee could not reach an agreement with the team prior to Thursday’s deadline: Mark Leiter Jr. The two sides will file for a hearing, per ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, though they can keep negotiating and potentially avoid that process.
Leiter was projected to make $2.1 million in arbitration.
The Yankees initially entered the offseason with 10 arbitration-eligible players, but they settled with Trent Grisham and JT Brubaker prior to the non-tender deadline in November, non-tendered Jon Berti and Tim Mayza, and traded Nestor Cortes and Jose Trevino.
