Nick Martinez Declines Mutual Option With Rays

Nick Martinez declined his end of a $20MM mutual option with the Rays, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post. Martinez will collect a $4MM buyout and return to free agency. The outcome was always certain. Mutual options are used as accounting measures and are almost never picked up by both sides. Even if […]

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  1. [Heyman] Nick Martinez is declining his Rays mutual option for $20M, picking up $4M in the process and becoming a free agent (of course!) Note: Basically zero mutual options are exercised by both sidesr/baseball · 6h ago

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