{"id":10071,"date":"2014-12-03T10:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:59:13","slug":"such-surprise-non-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10071","title":{"rendered":"Such surprise non-tenders (Non-Tender deadline 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Detwiler gets another frustrating year with the Nats save a trade. Photo Haraz Ghanbari\/AP via federalbaseball.com<\/p><\/div>\n

So, the tender deadline came and went.  I didn’t post any pre-tender deadline analysis because I didn’t think there was any analysis to do.  In November I thought *maybe* the team would think about parting ways with Kevin Frandsen<\/strong> or maybe Ross Detwiler<\/strong> … but then went and re-signed Frandsen.  I left Detwiler out of my initial salary analysis but …. thinking about it, if you’re nearing $150M of total payroll, why do you want to cut loose one of your bullpen guys over a measly $3-$4M?<\/p>\n

So I assumed we wouldn’t non-tender anyone.  And we didn’t<\/a>.    I say “we” like i’m part of the team or something.<\/p>\n

Anyway.  MLBtraderumors summarized the list of non-tenders<\/a> yesterday and the list really surprises me.<\/p>\n

First; why would a team *trade for* a guy and then non-tender him??   Toronto did this with no less than three<\/a> recently acquired players, headlined by former uber-prospect Justin Smoak<\/strong>.  Per Dave Cameron<\/strong>‘s chat  yesterday<\/a>, Toronto not only acquired Smoak recently but then had to pay a $200k buyout to non-tender him.  Just kind of an inexplicable set of transactions; they basically just lit $200k on fire for the privilege of having Smoak on their active roster for 5 weeks.  Did Smoak arrive in Toronto and immediately insult the GM’s mother or something?<\/p>\n

Boston acquired Juan Francisco<\/strong> off waivers last month and non-tendered him this month; weird.  Some other interesting positional players are Gordon Beckham<\/strong> and Everth<\/strong> Cabrera<\/strong>; maybe the Nats have some more 2B options on the market now.<\/p>\n

But some of the newly-minted FA arms are very intriguing to me:<\/p>\n