The Blue Jays have not gone to an arbitration hearing with a player since reliever Bill Risley in 1997. But the Jays have a major league-high nine players eligible this season and a team-imposed deadline of Tuesday to clear them from the books. Toronto's timeline shrunk last year when general manager Alex Anthopoulos said the team would not negotiate after salary figures were officially submitted for arbitration. That policy is expected to continue this season. "That's the impression that I'm under," reliever Casey Janssen said from his offseason home in California. "I know Alex has talked about having deadlines - kind of encouraging things to get done - so I think he's pretty comfortable with the file-and-trial system as well."