It may be too early to start discussing this, but it's probably not.
Chris and I have different opinions about the primary intent of the current processes. He thinks this is about winning and the Orioles will be aggressive with their depth and payroll flexibility in 2022 and I'd suggest that we won't see that type of action until 2 other events are resolved.
The Orioles seem to have a threshold of about 1M for their rostered players and I'd guess we'll get the hyper version of that in 2022 not the 'go spend 20+M on FAs to fill up the roster' approach.
So the Orioles will have 12 players eligible for arbitration next year.
Davis is under contract for one more season at 17M (2022 + plus 42M in deferred money)
Galvis, Franco and Harvey are FAs.
ARB3
Mancini
ARB2
Severino
Armstrong
Valaika
ARB1
Santander (Super 2 in 2021, I use ARB 0 for Super 2 to keep ARB years aligned)
Means
Lopez
Plutko
Ruiz
Fry
Sisco
Scott
I'd guess we will have no arbitration tenders in 2022.
We've already seen Oriole beat writers float Mancini, Santander and Means as trade candidates.
So these players all fall into basically 2 categories...they are either traded or they serve a purpose through the end of the season. The biggest purpose some of them may serve is absorbing innings for the team to survive the season without over-exposing (or even exposing) some of the younger arms.
It's just the first week of May and the trade deadline isn't until 30 JUL (4pm), but Organization interests could be served by moving some assets earlier than later towards the deadline.
Guess the status for these 12 players by December (tender deadline)