The offseason has arrived for the Red Sox, and beyond figuring out who will return among the club’s free agents, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow also has to sort things out with the team’s nine arbitration-eligible players.

For those unfamiliar, players with three or more years of MLB service time, but fewer than six, are eligible for salary arbitration, which is a process that determines the player’s salary for the following season. If players and clubs can’t agree on a salary by a particular deadline, the two sides will exchange salary proposals and a panel of arbitrators will pick one or the other — but nothing in between.

Clubs can also decline to tender a contract to an arbitration-eligible player, at which point they’d be “non-tendered” and immediately become a free agent.

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