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Free Agency Arrives: Two Automatic Free Agents for the Cubs, More to Come
Kyle Hendricks is officially a free agent.
As of this morning, players who aren’t under already under contract for 2025, and who have at least six years of big league service time, automatically become free agents. They are not permitted to sign with new teams for five days, but their agents can start sending out feelers and teams can start talking to them.
In other words, while there won’t be any free agents signing with new teams until next week at the earliest, the process begins today. Sometimes you see re-signings happen, and often times you see rumors kick up.
For the Chicago Cubs, their outgoing free agents as of this moment are Kyle Hendricks and Jorge Lopez. That’s it. Those are the only two players on the roster who aren’t under contract for 2025 and who have at least six years of big league service time.
That doesn’t mean, however, that the Cubs won’t have many more outgoing free agents. They will. It’s just that there will be some additional steps.
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