Major League Baseball’s non-tender deadline came and went at 8 p.m. ET Friday night. Each year, this process adds to the free-agent pool and it could be an opportunity for teams to go bargain shopping while the players become change-of-scenery candidates.
For those unfamiliar, the deadline means teams need to decided whether or not to offer contracts for the 2025 season to arbitration-eligible and pre-arbitration players, or every player that either doesn’t have enough service time to have reached free agency or without a guaranteed contract that eats up arbitration years. The players are either