PITTSBURGH -- The annual non-tender deadline may be an uneventful one for the Pirates this year.
Clubs have until 8 p.m. ET on Friday to officially offer a contract to players on their 40-man roster. That includes players who are eligible for salary arbitration and those who have not yet reached that point, but not those who have guaranteed deals like Andrew McCutchen, Francisco Cervelli and Josh Harrison.
The past two years, Pittsburgh parted ways with two relatively prominent arbitration-eligible players: Pedro Alvarez in 2015 and Jeff Locke in '16.