71.   One is the free-agent status of certain players, including Jimmy Key, whom the New York Yankees retained by offering salary arbitration.

72.   One is a brand-new item dealing with player rankings for salary arbitration.

73.   One-year agreements with Park and reserve outfielder Bruce Aven were also announced as the club avoided salary arbitration with both.

74.   One proposal Towers favors is reducing free agent service time from six years to four and eliminating salary arbitration.

75.   Other issues are salary arbitration and free agency.

76.   Other issues involve a salary structure for rookies, rules for salary arbitration and free agency restrictions.

77.   Peter Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, said he had heard talk of the swap of salary arbitration for earlier, unrestricted free agency.

78.   Other salaries in multiyear contracts will rise, too, as would the salaries of any players eligible for arbitration, if there is any more salary arbitration.

79.   Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Ken Wregget signed a new three-year contract, avoiding salary arbitration with the team.

80.   Q. What about salary arbitration?