Now that the Florida Marlins have an agreement with the union to increase spending on player’s salaries, you may see the team target pitcher Josh Johnson and Dan Uggla by giving them long-term deals.

Yesterday, the Marlins, the union and Major League Baseball announced that the team will increase spending towards player’s salaries.  There have been complaints that the team’s payroll has been so small that it violates baseball’s revenue sharing provisions.  The Marlins have been last in payroll in three of the last four years, but have outperformed teams spending much more money.

With this increased requirement to spend on salaries, the Marlins may give Johnson the elusive four-year deal that the he wants.  Johnson is in line to make about $4.2 million in arbitration this year if both sides do not agree to a long-term deal.  The Marlins have been offering a three-year deal, but Johnson and his agent, Matt Sosnick have insisted on a four-year deal.  You can see Johnson’s contract history and statistics here.

Uggla is in the second year of arbitration.  His 2010 salary is expected to exceed $7 million through arbitration this year.  Now that the Marlins have the commitment to spend money, they may focus their attention at retaining Uggla for the long-term and bypass arbitration.  You can see Dan Uggla’s complete contract details and statistics here.