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Holy crap, he busted open the arbitration system. No contract has even come close:

Juan Soto held the previous record for an arbitration-eligible player when he settled on a $31 million deal with the New York Yankees in 2024, the same season in which Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. set the mark for the highest panel award at just shy of $20 million.

David Price previously held the record salary for an arbitration-eligible pitcher with his $19.75 million agreement with the Tigers in 2015 -- a number below which the Tigers filed on Skubal. Jacob deGrom had the biggest raise for an arbitration-eligible pitcher ($9.6 million) in 2019, jumping from $7.4 million to $17 million in a deal with the New York Mets.

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Holy crap, he busted open the arbitration system. No contract has even come close:

>Juan Soto held the previous record for an arbitration-eligible player when he settled on a $31 million deal with the New York Yankees in 2024, the same season in which Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. set the mark for the highest panel award at just shy of $20 million.
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>David Price previously held the record salary for an arbitration-eligible pitcher with his $19.75 million agreement with the Tigers in 2015 -- a number below which the Tigers filed on Skubal. Jacob deGrom had the biggest raise for an arbitration-eligible pitcher ($9.6 million) in 2019, jumping from $7.4 million to $17 million in a deal with the New York Mets.