Non-tendered free agents are baseball’s equivalent of the clearance rack at the department store. You don’t want to shop there for a job interview, but the sweater that costs eighty bucks now might be on that rack for twenty in a month if you can be patient. So it is with free agents. If Ben Zobrist is too expensive for you, maybe Pedro Alvarez will give you sixty per cent of what Zobrist can for twenty per cent of the price.
Cleveland Indians
This week was the deadline for teams to tender contract offers to their arbitration eligible players, and some prominent names were on the list of those not tendered.