News and Links

Tonight at 8PM is non-tender deadline.

• Mark Feinsand writes about 24 notable players who might become free agents tonight, including the Rays Chaz Roe.
• Juan Toribio writes about Rays non-tender candidates.
• Marc Topkin takes another look at the Rays’ decisions behind the plate and wonders if the Rays made the right calls on d’Araud and Zunino. $$$
• Get your votes in for Austin Meadows and Charlie Morton for the first ever All-MLB Team. Voting ends at 5PM tomorrow.
• The new Effectively Wild podcast is out.
• Ichiro pitches 131-pitch complete game shutout against some teachers.
• Seymour Siwoff, who led the Elias Sports Bureau for 67 years, passes away at the age of 99.
• Trevor Bauer’s McLaren 650S sportscar was destroyed in a freak accident over the weekend when a tire fell off a semi-truck on a nearby highway, then rolled across six lanes of traffic before smashing through a dealership window and hitting the McLaren.
• Look at this good dog: