Most of the news surrounds who WON’T be returning to their teams
Diamondbacks News
(SI.com) Diamondbacks Non-Tender Brandon Hughes, Tender 29 Players’ Contracts
The Arizona Diamondbacks have tendered contracts to 29 players. The only non-tender was left-hand reliever Brandon Hughes.
Hughes was brought in during spring training last year, and made several appearances for the team in 2024. While he pitched well for Triple-A Reno, he was not successful in the majors, posting an 8.15 ERA in 17.1 innings. Hughes will become a free agent.
(AZ Central) Diamondbacks again considering trading from center field surplus in offseason
Hazen said this week he is not as comfortable trading from that depth as he has been in the past, but that doesn’t mean he won’t do it. It might end up being his best path toward assembling as strong a team as possible for 2025.
“We’ll see,” Hazen said. “I’m still skeptical that a trade is going to happen, but we’ve gotten a lot of calls. There’s not many center fielders out there is what I’m gathering.”
MLB News
(Yahoo! Sports) Reds swap 2B Jonathan India for Royals RHP Brady Singer in trade
The Kansas City Royals and Cincinnati Reds both traded from positions of depth on Friday.
In a swap between central division upstarts, the Reds sent infielder Jonathan India and outfielder Joey Wiemer to the Royals in exchange for starting pitcher Brady Singer, the club announced. The move is a swap of college teammates, as India and Singer played together at Florida.
For those unfamiliar, the deadline means teams need to decided whether or not to offer contracts for the 2025 season to arbitration-eligible and pre-arbitration players, or every player that either doesn’t have enough service time to have reached free agency or without a guaranteed contract that eats up arbitration years. The players are either “tendered” contracts or non-tendered, which means they immediately become free agents without hitting waivers.
We’re keeping tabs of every non-tendered player below, starting with the most intriguing players who are entering the free agency pool.
(MLB.com) Could Ichiro become the Hall of Fame’s first unanimous position player?
But the question is whether Suzuki will be listed on each ballot, an accumulation that has eluded all 346 Hall of Famers other than Mariano Rivera, the longtime Yankees closer. Even Mariners great Ken Griffey Jr., widely considered to be among the greatest players of his era, if not all-time, was left off three of the 440 ballots in the 2016 class. Derek Jeter was the closest to the achievement but was left off one single ballot among the 397 in ‘20.
[Ed. Note] It is truly mindboggling to me how some alleged writers can leave some of these names off their ballots. The fact that so many obvious Hall of Famers weren’t unanimous is just… malpractice and frankly one of multiple facts that show just how broken this process is.