free agent
noun
: a professional athlete (such as a baseball player) who is free to negotiate a contract with any team
free agency
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After a solid, 20 home run season with Atlanta's Gwinnett Stripers Triple-A club, Leonard chose to become a free agent, signing with Milwaukee six days later.
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Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
The 26-year-old Hickory, N.C. native was originally signed by Washington as a non-drafted free agent in July 2020.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
Since that would require both sides to agree on a players value, mutual options are rarely picked up, so as soon as Giolito reached 140 innings his becoming a free agent was all but assured.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
Their paydays marked the most lucrative contracts Ballard has ever given to free agents coming from another team, but those two weren’t Ballard’s only big-ticket items of the offseason.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
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Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
The 26-year-old Hickory, N.C. native was originally signed by Washington as a non-drafted free agent in July 2020.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
Since that would require both sides to agree on a players value, mutual options are rarely picked up, so as soon as Giolito reached 140 innings his becoming a free agent was all but assured.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
Their paydays marked the most lucrative contracts Ballard has ever given to free agents coming from another team, but those two weren’t Ballard’s only big-ticket items of the offseason.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Free agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20agent. Accessed 24 Nov. 2025.
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