LOS ANGELES -- Howie Kendrick isn't happy with the way free agency treated him, but he insists he's happy to be back with the Dodgers anyway.
Kendrick re-signed with the Dodgers this week for two years and $20 million after rejecting a one-year, $15.8 million qualifying offer because he expected a robust market that never materialized.
Kendrick on Friday said the compensatory Draft pick a club would have forfeited for signing him served as a "penalty" as interested teams would not give up the pick.
"The system is not designed to work the way it does," he said.