While the MLB offseason officially began on Sunday morning, most teams and players waited until Monday to make their first moves. The first step of any MLB offseason is deciding on options included in players' contracts.
As a brief reminder, players can have either a player, mutual, or club option tacked onto their contract, which gives one of the parties involved flexibility when it comes to deciding upon that player’s future with the organization. Player options are picked up by, unsurprisingly, the player when they believe that their value on the free agent market is less than the value of the option.