“It’s all I’ve ever known,” Freeman said on Friday of his tenure with Atlanta, where he made his major league debut in 2010. “But it is a little weird that by next Sunday, Monday, I could be a free agent.”
But, he added, “I think everyone in this room knows I want to stay here.”
Atlanta has made clear that it would like to retain Freeman, who in 2014 signed an eight-year deal valued at $135 million. The winner of the National League’s Most Valuable Player Award in 2020, Freeman has a .295 career average and 271 home runs to his name.