The Mets announced they have 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.
