Today was the tender deadline for arbitration eligible players. The San Francisco Giants had decisions to make for three players: RHP JT Brubaker, LHP Joey Lucchesi, and catcher Andrew Knizner. Earlier today, Knizner was designated for assignment to make room for OF Joey Wiemer, and at the deadline the Giants non-tendered Lucchesi and held on to Brubaker.

Before we get into the transaction, I owe the readers an apology. Back in October, I looked at the five players MLB Trade Rumors listed as being arbitration eligible: the three above plus Ryan Walker and Patrick Bailey. It turns out, the latter two were not eligible because they just barely missed the Super-2 cutoff (by four days).

The arbitration system works, broadly, like this: teams have six years of control of a player once they ar

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