Christmas shopping time for general managers as the list grows for players that have become available by being jettisoned from their previous team. The usual term is non-tendered and that is essentially a euphemism for simply being fired. The reasoning generally falls into two categories – money and health.
Baseball bodies are fragile in a different way than other sports – a fact that should be apparent when someone heads to the disabled list with a bruised pinky. With baseball all one has to do is slightly alter their hitting or pitching routine and that often leads to a cascade of bad events.