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Will Mets keep Rivera at non-tender deadline?
- Updated: November 30, 2016
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s annual non-tender deadline, which takes place on Friday, typically offers teams a chance to shed unwanted contracts from underperforming players.
The Mets aren’t likely to be active in those pursuits. Their most likely non-tender candidate is backup catcher Rene Rivera, although that’s not guaranteed. Everyone else on the Mets’ 40-man roster is at little to no risk of losing a job.
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When a club non-tenders a player, it declines to give that player a contract for the upcoming season, thereby immediately making him a free agent. Players on the 40-man roster with fewer than six years of Major League service time must be tendered contracts each offseason by the deadline, or non-tendered and released to the free-agent pool.
Rivera, 33, hit .222 with six …
