"The White Sox have decided against offering salary arbitration to their free agents, outfielder Jermaine Dye, right-handed reliever Octavio Dotel, outfielder Scott Podsednik and backup catcher Ramon Castro, a decision needing to be made by 11 p.m. CT on Tuesday.

And in the process of coming to this financial conclusion, they might have helped Dotel's value on the open market.

Both Dotel and Dye were classified as Type-A free agents, meaning if salary arbitration was offered and declined by either player, the White Sox could receive two Draft picks in return from the team eventually coming to terms with either one. Attaching that compensation to an individual such as Dotel, a talented hurler who still finds himself in the middle of a loaded free-agent relief pool that includes closers such as Mike Gonzalez, Billy Wagner, Fernando Rodney, Jose Valverde and Rafael Soriano, could cause potential suitors to shy away. "