Like most clubs throughout the sport, Baltimore has taken a 'file-and-trial' approach to arbitration in recent years. That is to say, once the team and player have exchanged numbers and filed those respective figures with the league, talks on a straight one-year deal are cut off. However, multi-year deals and one-year pacts that contain options are still on the table for discussion.
To many, it seems an odd line to draw on the surface. But one-year deals containing club or mutual options are not considered 'one-year' contracts in arbitration - at least not in the sense that they're considered relevant data points in future arbitration cases. Because of that, even file-and-trial clubs will generally discuss them, considering those deals more akin to multi-year pacts that don't have long-term ramifications in a process where salaries are determined based overwhelmingly on prior, comparable one-year agreements.
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