Baseball's annual non-tender deadline, when teams must offer players who are eligible for salary arbitration contracts for the coming season or ultimately release them, used to be a time for the Orioles to try and find bargains from other clubs who might be cutting loose a useful player.
This year, the Orioles have some decisions of their own to make on a handful of their five eligible players — Jonathan Villar, Tim Beckham, Mychal Givens, Dylan Bundy, and Caleb Joseph — ahead of that 8 p.m. Friday deadline.