The winter’s annual moment of reckoning has come and gone, and the Phillies have made some decisions about what they want their 2020 club to look like.
Monday at 8 p.m. E.T. was the deadline for clubs to tender contracts to all players still on their 40-man roster who do not currently have one: Pre-arbitration and arbitration-eligible players without a long-term Major League deal already signed, sealed, and delivered were the ones with their fates hanging in the balance league-wide. Teams and players may reach agreements on one-year deals, but the contracts still aren’t necessarily fully guaranteed (think Cameron Rupp in 2018) until the season starts.