Non-tender Candidates: Koyie Hill and Jeff Baker

For those of you who might not keep track of this stuff, tomorrow is the deadline for teams to tender contracts to players who are arbitration eligible. What this means is, if a team wants to keep a player for next year, they must tender him a contract, otherwise, if they "non-tender" him, he becomes a free agent. The Cubs have 6 players eligible for arbitration this year: Geovany Soto, Carlos Marmol, Sean Marshall, Tom Gorzelanny, Jeff Baker and Koyie Hill. It is assumed that the Cubs will tender contracts to Soto, Marmol, Marshall and Gorzelanny. Each of these players should see a significant jump in their salaries for 2011 as a result of the arbitration process (or through contract negotiations). Thus, the cost consious Cubs may be looking for ways to save money. One way to do so would be to non-tender Jeff Baker and/or Koyie Hill. Baker made $975K last year and Hill made $700K. Both would be expected to get raises for 2011 if they ended up going to arbitrati...