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- Updated: November 30, 2016
PITTSBURGH — The Pirates effectively parted ways with Jeff Locke on Tuesday night, but they still have a handful of roster decisions to make this week.
The deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players for the 2017 season is 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday night, and Locke was the Pirates’ most obvious non-tender candidate. The 29-year-old lefty pitched his way out of Pittsburgh’s rotation last season, posting a 5.44 ERA in 127 1/3 innings, and he would have been in line to make $4.2 million in arbitration next year, according to MLB Trade Rumors.
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The Pirates have other options in their rotation and bullpen, so they designated Locke for assignment to make room for the signing of right-hander Lisalverto Bonilla. If Locke hasn’t been traded or hasn’t agreed to sign with another club prior to Friday’s deadline, he will be officially non-tendered and become a free agent.
“As guys start to work through the arbitration process, our evaluation of how we best allocate our available resources, it becomes a challenge,” general manager Neal Huntington said. “Unfortunately, it’s not the first guy we’ve had to make a tough evaluation decision on as they go through the …
