The Mets announced yesterday that they non-tendered Omar Quintanilla, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Turner, Jeremy Hefner, and Scott Atchison.
Interesting purge by the Mets on non-tender day…
The 40 man roster is now at 35 players.
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Today is the non-tender deadline and all teams have until 11:59 tonight to decide which arbitration eligible players they will or will not offer contracts to.
For the Mets, they have ten decisions to make, but the way I see it only two players are on the bubble; Scott Atchison and Omar Quintanilla. I suspect both will be non-tendered though Quintanilla could survive the ax given how the shortstop search has completely backfired on the Mets and caught them off-guard.
Daniel Murphy stands to be the biggest winner nearly doubling his 2013 salary to $5.8 million dollars according to MLBTR.
Arbitration 1
Dillon Gee – $527,375 (2013) $3.4 million
Ruben Tejada – $514,701 (2013), $1.0 million
Justin Turner – $504,547 (2013), $800,000
Eric Young Jr. – $492,000 (2013), $1.9 million
Lucas Duda – $504,000 (2013), $1.8 million
Arbitration 2
Ike Davis – $3.125M (2013), $3.5 million
Daniel Murphy – $2.925M (2013), $5.8 million
Bobby Parnell – $1.7M (2013), $3.2 million
Omar Quintanilla – $527,375 (2013), $900,000
Arbitration 3
Scott Atchison – $700,000 (2013), $1.3 million
The Mets have a long history of avoiding arbitration hearings with players, so I’m sure they’ll spend the next few weeks negotiating and reaching agreements with the players they’ll keep.
Thoughts from David C.
Wow, these moves are somewhat surprising and even though the players can possibly re-sign with the Mets, I wouldn’t have thought the organization would part ways with Turner and Hefner. I really didn’t see that one coming, but I had a feeling something would be up with Valdespin, because as we all know he wore out his welcome a long time ago. Will be interesting to see if other teams jump on the opportunity to sign one of these players, and at least with Turner, who was one of my favorites, they would be getting a player that can hit and is a versatile fielder. Will be interesting to see what SA has up his sleeve with these quick moves.