Written by Adam Burke

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The Indians have six players to tender contracts to before the midnight ET deadline tonight. Those six players are Shin-Soo Choo, Asdrubal Cabrera, Chris Perez, Rafael Perez, Jensen Lewis, and Joe Stiff, er, I mean Smith.

Clearly, four of those are no-brainers. The likelihood is that the Indians will tender both Jensen Lewis and Joe Smith as well. Both Lewis and Smith are arbitration-eligible, but coming off subpar seasons, neither player has a lot of bargaining power in negotiations. Combined, they should make close to or under $1M.

The only Indians who currently have contracts complete for the 2011 season are Travis Hafner (13M), Grady Sizemore ($7.67M), and Fausto Carmona ($6.288M), giving the Indians financial commitments of nearly $27M. With the payroll expected to be around $50-55M, we will be seeing lots of $400k contracts to go along with raises for Choo, R. Perez, and Cabrera.