Friday marks another important date on MLB’s offseason calendar as teams further finalize their roster before really picking things up in free agency and on the trade market. (We hope, at least.) By 8:00 PM ET on Friday, teams must have tendered contracts to all arbitration-eligible players they would like to keep for the 2019 season. Anyone who is not tendered a contract will become a free agent.
For a little refresher on how all of this works, tendering a contract is not the same as agreeing to terms and is just the first step in the overly complicated process that is arbitration.