Dallas Keuchel, Craig Kimbrel No Longer Attached To Draft Pick Compensation

It is officially draft day in Major League Baseball, and as the clock has struck midnight on the east coast, it also means that teams can sign free agents who rejected the qualifying offer without having to surrender the draft pick compensation usually attached to QO picks. Thus, after months of speculation, Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel have been one of their chief obstacles to a new contract fall by the wayside.

MLB Trade Rumors

Marwin Gonzalez & The Flattening Of Player Valuation

Everyone remembers the first sign of labor trouble. No, no, it wasn’t Bryce Harper or Manny Machado, nor was it JD Martinez a season ago. In fact the first sign that there was divergence between how front offices perceived a player and how players themselves (and agents) valued themselves was actually during the 2013-14 offseason, during the fiasco involving Stephen Drew and Kendrys Morales.

Beyond The Boxscore

Stephen Drew Visits Nationals After Ankle Surgery & Says He Is Done Playing

Chelsea Janes Twitter

Eduardo Nunez Hits Inside-The-Parker For Red Sox

The Red Sox expect to increase their home run total this season, and the first one didn't even have to leave the yard.

Boston Official Site

25 MLB Elder Statesman Looking For Work

Veterans and super-veterans continue to struggle to find work, with the over-35 set particularly ignored.

FanRags

Dexter Fowler Could Become Available For Trade; Astros Were Interested In Yu Darvish; Yankees Interested In Alex Cobb

Some people believe Dexter Fowler could become available in trade. Fowler was their big free-agent signing last winter, but some believe they are open to at least listening. They already traded their big signing from the year before, Mike Leake, when the Mariners agreed to take on the majority of his deal. If they were to trade Fowler, they’d expect the same in such a deal – they’d pay only a small part of it. It isn’t known whether Fowler’s availability is dependent on a potential trade for Giancarlo Stanton, but it makes sense that it might.

FanRags

Nationals Don't Extend Qualifying Offers To Howie Kendrick, Stephen Drew, Joe Blanton, Oliver Perez, Edwin Jackson, Ryan Raburn, Or Alejandro De Aza

The Nationals did not extend any qualifying offers before Monday's 5 p.m. ET deadline expired, as they had 12 players hit free agency. Despite that high number of free agents, Washington will return nearly all of its regulars from last season, so it was no surprise the Nats did not extend the one-year, $17.4 million contract to anyone.

Washington Official Site

Nationals Activated Stephen Drew From The Disabled List

Mark Zuckerman Twitter

Bryce Harper 'Felt Good' In Second Simulated Game

Bryce Harper is close to playing in a game soon. The only question remaining is what his next step will be after he participated in his second simulated game Saturday afternoon at Citi Field.

Washington Official Site

Nationals Activated Max Scherzer From The Disabled List & Transferred Stephen Drew From Ten-Day To 60-Day Disabled List

WTOP Sports Twitter

Nationals Activated Stephen Drew From The Disabled List

Federal Baseball Twitter

Adam Wainwright Changes Positioning On Mound; Kevin Siegrist Searches; Extra Bases

Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright heard from a friend how, shortly after the righthander’s most recent start, Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez took to Twitter to write, how Wainwright “is going to reinvent himself and get people out. I wouldn’t worry about him in the beginning of the season.”

Post-Dispatch

Nationals Placed Stephen Drew On The Ten-Day Disabled List

Todd Dybas Twitter

Stephen Drew Exits With Leg Injury Vs. Cardinals

Stephen Drew left before the start of the sixth inning of Tuesday's 8-3 win over the Cardinals, after suffering an apparent leg injury. Drew grabbed at the back of his right leg while running to first base after tapping a grounder back to the pitcher to end the fifth inning and never made it back on the field.

Washington Official Site

After Another Scuffle For Adam Wainwright, We Must Ask: Is This The New Reality?

With Adam Wainwright, maybe we have to get used to the idea that from now on he’ll be trying to get by on pitch-mixing guile, and sleight of hand, the curve ball on a good day, and his enormous competitive heart. Instead of gliding through starts, he’ll have to fight through them.

101 ESPN

Lance Lynn Gets Nod Vs. Gio Gonzalez, Nationals

Little is unfamiliar between the Cardinals and Nationals, who meet again on Tuesday in a 7:05 p.m. CT game at Nationals Park.

St. Louis Official Site

Stephen Drew Chose The Nationals Over Offers To Start Elsewhere

Stephen Drew could’ve leveraged his bounce-back 2016 season into a starting job as a free agent over the winter. There’s a market for veterans capable of playing three infield positions with some pop at the plate and tempting offers to start were presented to him. A few years ago, Drew probably would’ve snatched one and ended his time with the Nationals after one season.

Washington Post

Every Team Could Use Brandon Moss

He hit 28 home runs in 464 plate appearances and is still a free agent. Can someone please sign Brandon Moss already?

Beyond The Boxscore

Nationals Signed Stephen Drew For One-Year/$3.5M

Jon Heyman Twitter

Nationals, Angels Looking At Stephen Drew

Jon Heyman Twitter