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The MLP’s slow office saw some activity this week, indicating a non-tender deadline on Wednesday night. ET had until 8pm to decide whether teams could award contracts to their referee-qualified players.
Players with tender contracts must reach an agreement with their team for the upcoming season either by coming to an agreement with the club or by having their contract determined by an arbitrator. Those who do not have contract agreements will join the free agents class this year.
Here is a list of news from Wednesday’s non-tender deadline. It will be updated as more names come out.
Players who have agreed contracts:
- 1B Matt Olson, Athlete: One Year, 5 Million (Mark Finesand, MLB.com)
- George Soler, Royals: One Year, .0 8.05 Million (Mark Finesand, MLB.com)
- RHP Matt Barnes, Red Sox: One Year, 4.4 Million $ 250,000 Incentive (Bob Nightingale, USA Today)
- 1B Jose Aguilar, Marlins: One Year, 35 $ 4.35 Million with $ 150,000 Plate Off Incentive (John Heyman, MLB Network)
- C. Kevin Flavecki, Red Sox: One Year, 6 1.6 Million (Mark Finesand, MLB.com)
- 1b / 3b: Hunter Dossier, Royals: One Year, 72 2.72 Million (John Heyman, MLB Network)
- LHP Steven Mats, Mets: One Year, 2 5.2 Million (Anthony DiComo, MLB.com)
- RHP Ryan Frazier, Red Sox: One Year, 25 1.25 Million (Mark Finesand, MLB.com)
- S.S. Orlando Arcia, C. Omar Nervas: Accepts pay cuts to avoid a lack of tender (Tom Hatrickord, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- LHP Scott Alexander, Dodgers (Team Notice)
- Race has awarded contracts to their seven refereeing qualifiers: LHP Jose Alvarado, RHP Vagina Cirinos, 1B G-Man Choi, RHP Tyler Glasno, Manuel Marcot, IF (Mark Topkin, Tampa Bay Times)
- UT (Team Notice)
- RHP Austin Proud, Astros (Team Notice)
- 2B Tony Kemp, Athlete (Team Notice)
- 1B Garrett Cooper, Marlins: 5,000 205,000 in one year, 8 1.85 million performance bonus (Craig Mish, MLB Network)
- RHP Jacob Barnes and Guillermo Heredia, Mets (Team Notice)
- LHP Matt Strom, Patress (Team Notice)
- C / IF Ryan Farmer, Reds (Team Notice)
- LHP Jace Fry, White Socks: One Year, $ 862,500 (Team Notice)
- RHP Louise Cessa and RHP Ben Heller, Yankees (Team Notice)
Non-tender players:
- Angels: RHP Justin Anderson, RHP Matt Andreas, RHP Keenan Middleton, LHP Hobby Milner and RHP Hansel Robles (Team Notice)
- Astros: The Astros have awarded contracts to all of their referee-qualified players. (Team Notice)
- Blue Zeus: INF Travis Shaw and RHP AJ Cole (Team Notice)
- Brave ones: Adam Dowell (Team Notice)
- Brewers: OF Ben Camel, UT Jace Peterson and LHP Alex Claudio (Team Notice)
- Cardinals: RHP John Propia and 1B / OF Rangal Ravello (Team Notice)
- Cubs: Kyle Swarfer, Albert Almora Jr., INF Jose Martinez and RHP Ryan Deborah (Team Notice)
- Indians: Delino Tshields, Tyler Knawkin and RHP Jeffrey Rodriguez (Team Notice)
- Marines: The Mariners have awarded contracts to all of their referee-qualified players. (Team Notice)
- Marlins: RHP Jose Urena, RHP Rhine Stonek (Team Notice)
- Meets: RHP Ariel Jurato, RHP Paul Sewalt, LHP Season Shreve and RHP Nick Tropiano (Team Notice)
- Oriols: INF Hancer Alberto (Team Notice)
- Parents: INF Greg Garcia (Team Notice)
- Bliss: The Billies have awarded contracts to all of their referee-qualified players. (Team Notice)
- Rangers: RHP Jimmy Herket, Scott Heinman and Danny Santana (Team Notice)
- Rays: Rays has awarded contracts to all of their referee-qualified players. (Mark Topkin, Tampa Bay Times)
- Reds: Brian Goodwin, RHP AJ Alanis, RHP Archie Bradley, C. Kurt Kasali and INF Kyle Farmer. (Team Notice)
- Rockies: David Doll, C Tony Walters and RHP CC Gonzalez (Team Notice)
- Royals: 3B Michael Franco, S.S. Jason Guzman, U.D. Eric Mejia, OF Buba Starling, LHP Foster Griffin and RHP Carlos Sanabria (Team Notice)
- Tigers: The Tigers have awarded contracts to all their referee-qualified players. (Team Notice)
- Twins: Eddie Rosario and RHP Matt Whistler (Team Notice)
- White socks: Nomar Masara and LHP Carlos Rodan (Team Notice)
- Yankees: RHP Jonathan Holder (Team Notice)
Players are likely to reach the arbitration level:
- 3B Raphael Towers, Red Sox: The team will offer a deal, but no deal has been done yet. (Mark Finesand, MLB.com)
MLB Rumors:
- Angels has acquired shortstop Jose Iglesias in a deal with Orioles. Baltimore replaces RHPs Jean Pinto and Garrett Stallings, The team announced. (Ken Rosenthal, Athletes)
- Blue Zeus is among the teams talking to Bliss about Jean Sekura, who is gaining commercial interest. (Robert Murray, Fan)
- Dodgers have acquired RHP Cory Naples from the Brewers in exchange for a player being made later or exchanged for cash consideration. (Dodgers)
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