Per Major League Baseball’s agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association, 147 players automatically became free agents Wednesday, the day after the World Series ended.
That’s a fair number of players and it’s likely going to increase over the next day or so as team options on players are declined. Among those will likely be Jon Lester and Daniel Descalso of the Cubs.
Oh, and then this happened late Wednesday:
The #STLCards have declined second baseman Kolten Wong's option for 2021, president of baseball operations John Mozeliak announces.