The offseason is officially underway, and the Oakland A’s have an important date coming up on Dec. 2. That’s the deadline for when they must decide whether to tender contracts to their arbitration-eligible players, or non-tender them and let them become free agents. The A’s have 13 eligible players, so there will be many decisions to make up and down the roster.
But Oakland’s most interesting non-tender candidate is righty Blake Treinen. The 31-year-old is entering his final year of arbitration after a nightmare of a season in 2019, and his estimated $7.8 million price tag may prove too costly for the budget-conscious A’s.