Friday was the deadline for teams to tender contracts to their arbitration-eligible players. Any players that teams decided against tendering a contract to are called “non-tenders”, and are free to sign with any team. Fortunately, the Yankees tendered contracts to all of their arbitration-eligible players.
Not everyone was so lucky. Across the league, potentially useful players were cut loose as teams maneuvered and reshaped their rosters as they saw fit. Now, there’s an interesting cohort of veteran players looking for work. Which of these newly non-tendered players could be most appealing to the Yankees?
One of the biggest names to be non-tendered was former Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton.