Apparently general managers everywhere are cowering in fear that their team’s free agents might accept arbitration. Here’s a partial list of people who have not been offered:

Type A	Type B
Bobby Abreu	Moises Alou
Doug Brocail	Garrett Anderson
Patt Burrell	Joe Beimel
Adam Dunn	Alan Embree
Bob Howry	Luis Gonzalez
Jamie Moyer	Ken Griffey Jr
Andy Pettitte	Mark Grudzielanek
Edgar Renteria	Randy Johnson
Russ Springer	Jeff Kent
Kerry Wood	Paul Lo Duca
	Mark Loretta
	Arthur Rhodes
	Ivan Rodriguez
	Rudy Seanez
	John Smoltz
	Frank Thomas
	Juan Uribe
	Randy Wolf
	Greg Zaunn

Some of these make sense (Luis Gonzalez, Paul LoDuca) and some of these are really whacky (Adam Dunn). In fact, in a lot of ways most of the Type B choices make sense because a number of them are rather old and unlikely to get any kind of payday, or are just undesirable and would probably accept (Mark Loretta).

What this means is that this year everyone is shaking in their boots that unwanted players will accept arbitration. Some of this is founded and some of it makes no sense. Randy Wolf, Pat Burrell and Bobby Abreu, for example, were very unlikely to accept arbitration. So there must be something else other than financial concerns going on but we won’t ever know.