Tomorrow evening at 7:00 p.m. CST the non-tender deadline will come and go. That’s when the teams must tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players or let them become free agents. The Astros have ten of those players on their roster and will have to decide who will be offered a contract, if so, how much, and who will be left out.
If a contract is put out there to a player, they will still have until early February to possibly work out a deal before arbitration hearings begin. A team typically has three options.
- They can offer them a contract that they think is a fair one, usually around what the team will put on the table for arbitration.