It will be a little strange to look at the Houston Astros starting rotation in 2026 and not see left-hander Framber Valdez anchoring it.

Major League Baseball's offseason cleared another important threshold at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, when the deadline for teams to tender 2026 contracts to their arbitration-eligible and pre-arbitration players passed.

After Yoshinobu Yamamoto's wildly successful postseason run, teams are excited for former NPB star Tatsuya Imai's MLB free agency.

The MLB free-agent market for the 2025-26 offseason wasn't truly fully stocked until Friday night, and now it is after the tender deadline came and went.

Infielder Sung-Mun Song, one of Korea’s best hitters over the past two seasons, will have a chance to pursue an MLB opportunity this offseason. The Kiwoom Heroes of the Korea Baseball Organization are set to make Song available via the posting system on Saturday at 8 a.

Here’s the complete list of players who got tendered and became free agents after the MLB 2025 tender deadline.

These four free agents represent the best potential values for what they might get on the open market this offseason.

The Reds have also shown interest in former Brewers and Yankees closer Devin Williams. If they don't re-sign Pagan, they will need someone to take over their closer role. Tony Santillan would be an option if they were to look from within the organization.

Friday at 5 p.m. ET marked the deadline for teams to tender a contract for 2026 to players under club control who had not already signed contracts for the upcoming season. Sixty-six players were “non-tendered,

Every year, the non-tender deadline creates a new batch of free agents. This group, by comparison to others, is fairly underwhelming.