ATLANTA — The Braves and Max Fried could not come to an agreement on a contract for 2023 before Friday’s deadline for teams and arbitration-eligible players to exchange salary figures. The Braves and Fried presumably will head to an arbitration hearing in the near future.
While the Braves didn’t settle with Fried, their biggest arbitration-eligible name, they agreed to contracts with the others: A.J. Minter, Joe Jiménez, Dennis Santana and Lucas Luetge. Those four Braves joined Mike Soroka and Tyler Matzek, who resolved their situations at the non-tender deadline in November.
MLB Trade Rumors, which projects what players might earn in arbitration, predicted Fried would make $12.2 million in his second year of arbitration. Last season, Fried and the Braves went to an arbitration hearing, where Fried won his case and earned $6,850,000 during a season that ended with him finishing second in National League Cy Young Award voting.
