On the surface, the amount of non-tenders around baseball yesterday wasn’t that much different from the number of non-tenders in baseball a year ago. There were 59 of them yesterday, and 53 of them a year ago. The big difference was that there were 29 more non-tender day deals agreed to yesterday than a year ago – signaling that players were worried about testing free agency if they could get a guarantee, even if it came at a lower price than they normally would have gotten.
But despite things playing out differently, the additions to the free agent pool is about the same as it was last year.