The recent list of players axed from rosters via non-tender gives little in the way of encouragement that someone is a buried gem. Boston Red Sox fans had a painful exhibition during the latter half of 2019 watching Chris Owings, Gorkys Hernandez, and Josh Smith imitating MLB players. None will be professionally missed.
There is one player on the now free agent list that presents a possibility and that is a former prospect who was ranked among the top 100 – Blake Swihart. The switch-hitting Swihart was traded off to Arizona for Marcus Wilson.