Friday afternoon marked the deadline for teams to declare their intention to offer contracts to their controllable players (chiefly the arbitration-eligible players). The Atlanta Braves had a couple of players still in some doubt as to their status yesterday.
One player whose doubt was removed quickly was reliever Jonny Venters. In this, his finally final year of arbitration, the fine folks over at MLB Trade Rumors who model these things had projected that Venters would be looking at something in the immediate neighborhood of $1.5 million.
Now Venters has, of course, been on a tortuous path during his major league career.