Wilmer Difo and the Washington Nationals reportedly agreed on a 1-year/$1M deal for 2020 last night, after the veteran infielder earned $581,100 in 2019, in a season which he spent at Triple-A Fresno for the most part.
The Difo deal left the Nationals with seven arbitration-eligible players they needed to make decisions on before tonight’s 8:00 PM deadline to tender contracts to arb-eligible players (those who have more than three and fewer than six years of service time in the majors) for the 2020 season.
Non-tendering any of the players would immediately make them free agents.