Baseball Free Agent Field To Expand Friday With Non-Tender Deadline
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If he’s not tendered a new contract by the Milwaukee Brewers, first baseman Rowdy Tellez will become … [+] a free agent. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images) Getty Images The baseball free-agent field is about to get a lot bigger. That’s because the deadline to tender players contracts is this Friday, Nov. 17. Teams can decline contracts to anyone on their 40-man roster who isn’t already on a multi-year, guaranteed pact. Such non-tenders go immediately into free agency without passing GO or collecting $200. Players who are tendered a contract, on the other hand, can continue negotiating with their current clubs before salary arbitration hearings, usually overlapping the start of spring training from mid-February well into March. According to Matt Swartz of the website Major League Baseball Trade Rumors (mlbtr.com), some recognizable names are likely to be non-tendered – and thus become free agents. The most prominent among them, Swartz predicts, are catchers Austin Nola, Garrett Stubbs, and Jose Trevino; first baseman Rowdy Tellez; second baseman Kyle Farmer and Josh Rojas; shortstop Jorge Mateo; third basemen Nick Senzel, Edmundo Sosa, and Ramon Urias; and outfielders Akil Baddoo, Jake Bauers, Trent Grisham, Connor Joe, and Austin Meadows; plus designated hitter Daniel Vogelbach. Pitchers the writer considers likely non-tenders include Domingo German, who pitched a perfect game for the Yankees in 2023, and Michael Soroka, a one-time All-Star who finished second in the National League’s Rookie of the Year voting in 2019 before tearing his Achilles twice. Other pitchers who could be non-tendered are left-handed relievers Joe Mantiply and Ryan Yarbrough, plus righties Drew Smith and Alan Cimber. It’s already been a busy time for general managers, who faced a midweek deadline to finalize their 40-man rosters and factored into the equation the deadline for free agents to accept or reject a…
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