MLB tender deadline: Bellinger, Voit among 83 players cut

NEW YORK (AP) — Cody Bellinger, Brian Anderson and Luke Voit have been amongst 83 gamers who grew to become free brokers Friday night time when their former groups declined to supply them contracts for subsequent season.

Alex Reyes, Ryan Yarbrough and Jeimer Candelario additionally have been minimize unfastened forward of baseball’s tender deadline, with golf equipment selecting to dump dozens of gamers who in any other case would have been eligible for wage arbitration.

Aristides Aquino, Garrett Hampson, Adam Engel, Dominic Smith, Jorge Alfaro, Raimel Tapia and Erick Fedde hit the open market as effectively.

Bellinger was by far the largest identify of the bunch.

The 2019 NL MVP was jettisoned by the Los Angeles Dodgers after batting .210 with 19 homers this season. The 27-year-old outfielder had 150 strikeouts and a .654 OPS in 144 video games whereas incomes $17 million.

Bellinger possible would have acquired a slight increase in his newest spherical of arbitration.

“I wouldn’t essentially say that this can be a closing of the chapter of Cody and the Dodgers,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman stated.

“We nonetheless very a lot consider within the expertise of Cody and his aggressive make-up. We’ve curiosity in a reunion. We’ll proceed talks with Cody and his group as he goes by the method on his finish.”

Anderson, a 3rd baseman and proper fielder for Miami since 2017, batted .222 with eight homers, 28 RBIs and a .657 OPS in 98 video games this yr whereas making $4,475,000. He had three stable seasons in a row from 2018-20.

Voit was the main league residence run champion with 22 for the New York Yankees through the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. This yr, he batted .226 with 22 homers, 69 RBIs and a .710 OPS in 135 video games mixed for San Diego and Washington whereas incomes $5.45 million. He was let go by the Nationals.

A number of gamers agreed to one-year offers earlier than the deadline, together with San Francisco outfielder Mike Yastrzemski ($6.1 million) and Detroit outfielder Austin Meadows ($4.3 million), who can earn a $25,000 bonus for 600 plate appearances.

Others have been Yankees reliever Lou Trivino ($4.1 million), Miami reliever Dylan Floro ($3.9 million), Milwaukee pitcher Adrian Houser ($3.6 million), Atlanta pitcher Mike Soroka ($2.8 million), Chicago Cubs pitcher Adrian Sampson ($1.9 million), Detroit left-hander Tyler Alexander ($1,875,000), Brewers reliever Matt Bush ($1.85 million), Cubs reliever Rowan Wick ($1.55 million), Pittsburgh third baseman Miguel Andújar ($1,525,000), Arizona reliever Cole Sulser ($825,000), Philadelphia reliever Sam Coonrod ($775,000) and San Diego lefty Jose Castillo ($730,000).

Colorado claimed Brent Suter off waivers from Milwaukee and signed the Harvard left-hander to a $3 million, one-year contract. Suter can earn $200,000 in efficiency bonuses for innings: $100,000 every for 40 and 60.

Many extra gamers have been non-tendered Friday than in years previous due to a change to the offseason calendar.

Within the new collective bargaining settlement between gamers and homeowners that took impact this yr, the tender deadline was moved as much as the identical week because the date to incorporate gamers on 40-man rosters to be able to shield them from the Rule 5 draft.

Consequently, 39 gamers not too long ago designated for task by groups to create roster house wound up being non-tendered as effectively simply days later.