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Seattle Mariners: Who could be non-tendered today before the deadline?

Mariners' Mitch Haniger walks back to the dugout while carrying his bat. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Today, December 2nd is the deadline for teams to send an offer to players without contracts. Will the Seattle Mariners non-tender anyone who does not have a contract or is headed into arbitration?

We have arrived on December 2nd which marks the MLB contract tender deadline. If you are not quite sure what that means, it’s simply that arbitration-eligible players must have a “contract tendered” by their team before the deadline.

Arbitration eligible players (Most players who have between 3-6 years of MLB service time) must be “tendered” which means that you will enter into a contract negotiation with the player and if you can’t agree to a deal, the player and team will go into arbitration to decide the player’s salary.