10:33pm: Jeff Pa san of ESPN that the deadline for teams and players to come to agreements is set for 1:00 pm EST. Salary figures will be officially exchanged at 8:00 pm. 7:19pm: The deadline for teams to exchange salary figures with arbitration-eligible players is set for Thursday, . Rich Dubroff of Baltimore Baseball reports ( ) that the deadline is 8:00 pm EST Heath Bell Jersey . Initially, that had been set for Friday afternoon. Andy Kostka of the Baltimore Banner notes ( ) that the league and Players A sociation agreed last month to move it up a day. Its unclear why that decision was made. In any event, itll spur some activity a day earlier than anticipated. The salary exchange date is not nece sarily a deadline for teams to negotiate with their arbitration-eligible players. Teams and players are free to continue talks right up until a hearing (which generally run from mid-February into the beginning of March). It serves as an anchoring point in negotiations, though, and many teams treat it as an unofficial deadline to avoid a hearing. Itll therefore spur a large number of salary agreements , and all agreed to deals this afternoon and could be the catalyst for a trade or two. MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz salaries for all arbitration-eligible players at the start of the offseason. could top record-setting $30MM mark in his final year of eligibility. , , and trade candidates like and are all in line for notable sums in their own right. Randy Vasquez Jersey