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Cubs 2023 Rule 5 Draft & Minor League Free-Agency Watch List

10/13 UPDATE:

1B-3B Edwin Rios has elected free-agency.

Rios was sent outright to AAA Iowa on July 30th, and as an Article XX-D player (that's any player who has accrued at least three years but less than five years of MLB Service Time and/or has been outrighted previously in his career), Rios had the right to elect free-agency after being outrighted, terminate his contract, and forfeit the balance of his $1M 2023 salary (a player has 48 hours to decide if he is outrighted during Spring Training or during the MLB regular season, otherwise he has 72 hours to decide), or accept the outright assignment, keep the contract in force, continue to get paid, and defer his election of free-agency until a window beginning on the day after the conclusion of the MLB regular season and extending through October 15th (Rios chose to accept the outright assignment, continue to get paid, and defer free agency until after the conclusion of the MLB regular season).