The Rays and center fielder B.J. Upton are headed for arbitration.
Upton asked for $3.3 million for the 2010 season, but Tampa Bay was only willing to give him $3 million.
"I don't think anybody ever wants to actually go to a hearing," Upton said.
Either way, Upton will receive more than a $2.5 million raise from the $435,000 he made last season.
"I'm not the biggest fan of this process," Rays vice president of baseball Andrew Friedman said.
"I'm certainly not its biggest advocate. But it is what it is, and we all have to operate within it."
Upton Set For Huge Raise In Arbitration



