BALTIMORE -- For months (and particularly the past few weeks), the speculation grew surrounding Ryan Mountcastle ’s future in Baltimore -- whether he’d have one or whether the Orioles’ longest-tenured player would be the odd man out in a logjam at first base.

After Friday’s 5 p.m. ET non-tender deadline passed, Mountcastle remained on the O’s roster, at least for now.

Baltimore tendered contracts to 10 of its arbitration-eligible players ahead of the deadline. That included the 28-year-old Mountcastle, who is entering his final year of arbitration eligibility and has spent his entire six-year MLB career with the Orioles.

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However, the O’s non-tendered right-hander Albert Suárez -- making the 36-year-old right-hander a free agent -- and traded catcher Alex Jac

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