Major League Baseball’s deadline by which teams must decide whether or not to tender contracts to their arbitration-eligible players is tomorrow evening. And while the can certainly afford to tender contracts to all of those players and figure things out later in the offseason, it wouldn’t be shocking if the team were to non-tender one or more players.
Pete Alonso is in entering his final year of arbitration eligibility, and he’ll obviously be tendered a contract. And let’s just assume the team will tender Joey Lucchesi a contract, too, as he performed well at the major league level this year and can—at minimum—provide some much-needed rotation depth, especially in the wake of David Peterson’s hip surgery.