Blue Jays avoid arbitration with Cecil, Saunders and Delabar

The Jays have come to agreements with 3 of the 8 arbitration eligible players that made it to filing day.

#BlueJays avoid arb with Delabar (835K) & Saunders ($2.9M) per @JonHeyman

— Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) January 15, 2016

#BlueJays avoid arb with Brett Cecil per source. $3.8 million

— Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) January 15, 2016

Brett seems like a bargain at that price.

That leaves 5 for the Jays to either make a deal with today or go in front of the arbitrator, since the Jay still say they won't negotiate a one-year deal with any player they end up filing with.

Still to come are Jesse Chavez, Aaron Loup, Drew Hutchison, Drew Storen and the big one Josh Donaldson who likely will end up breaking records, if he ends up filing.  Josh and the Jays went to arbitration last year.

I'll imagine we'll have more news soon,  as the 1:00 pm Eastern time deadline is just a few minutes off.

Update:

One more:

#BlueJays and Drew Storen avoid arbitration at $8.375m, per source.

— Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) January 15, 2016

Four down, four to go.

Update #2:

#BlueJays and Aaron Loup settle at $1,050,000, per source

— Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) January 15, 2016

And then there were 3.

Update #3:

Two notes on Drew Storen: He gets $50k at each of 35/45/55 games finished; #Nationals are to send #BlueJays difference from Revere salary

— Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) January 15, 2016

Alex wasn't a fan of incentives, but he's gone. It is interesting that the Nationals are sending the Jays money to make up for the difference between Revere and Storen.

Update #4:

#BlueJays and Jesse Chavez did not settle ahead of deadline, will exchange arbitration figures.

— Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) January 15, 2016

So they will be getting the contract set by an arbitrator, I'm sure the Jays won't be looking at more than a 1-year contract with Chavez.