Tim Hudson Likely To Choose Free Agency

Braves pitcher Tim Hudson is likely to choose free agency "barring a last-minute, knockout offer from the Braves," according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. Rosenthal says the Braves are likely to exercise their half of Hudson's $12MM mutual option for 2010, but Hudson would rather decline his side and seek a larger guarantee. Hudson is projected to fall just short of Type B status, and if that holds up there would be no point to an arbitration offer. Back on September 24th, ESPN's Jayson Stark found it "all but certain" that Hudson would return to the Braves next year....