And we hear my doubting hour And you who you're soothing song

And you who when you call mercy And you who you can't be strong

When you come with tender arms I could ever do you know

I could ever do you know I could ever do you know

Hello and welcome to episode 1622 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast with

Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer joined by Meg Rallyh of Fan Graphs Hello Meg. Hello. And we are joined

today by a couple of other pals from Fan Graphs Craig Edwards. Hello Craig. How are you?

I'm doing well. And Eric Longan. He can hello Eric. Hey Ben. How's it going?

Okay. So we are here to discuss the offseason ahead and whether it could be

better structurally speaking but also just the strange specific circumstances

surrounding this offseason and how it will affect moves that are made or not

made as the case may be. And you guys have both been writing about some of the

coming decisions that teams are facing with the non-tender deadline on December

2nd next week and we're already seeing some dominoes fall there. And there

are going to be a lot of tricky decisions this offseason in particular. But Eric,

you just wrote about this in the context of recent offseason and as you

pointed out there have been more and more non-tenders as time has gone on and

the circumstances are really aligned for there to be just sort of a non-tender

apocalypse this offseason. So can you explain I guess what a non-tender is for

people who are kind of hazy on the terminology and why there have been more of

them of late and why they're seemingly will be a record number this year.

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