The non-tender deadline has passed with 56 more players joining the list of free agents. Non-tendered free agents are typically younger, with more upside than traditional free agents, since they don’t have six years of service time yet, plus a team that signs them could get more than one year of club control. On the flip side, non-tendered free agents are players that a team decided was not worth hanging onto, and no team was willing to trade for.
Based on our modeling, the average non-tendered player had a trade value of $-0.