Shi Davidi of Sportsnet broke the news shortly after the 8 pm EST deadline via Twitter. MLB Trade Rumours had predicted that Tom Koehler would earn $6 million and Ryan Goins $1.8 million through the arbitration process. The Jays obviously felt the money could be better served focussed somewhere else in bettering the club.
Goins is somewhat of an interesting non-tender seeing he was projected to earn below $2 million for the upcoming season however perhaps the acquisition of Gift Ngoepe changed the landscape on the Goins situation.
Last season Goins slashed .