For the first time in the history of the Dominican Republic winter baseball league, players will be able to declare themselves free agents.
That opens up a whole new process that would allow for team restructuring and better negotiations for money and playing time for players.
Today the National Federation of Professional Baseball Players (FENAPEPRO) presented the list of players eligible to qualify for free agency.
In list there are 26 outfielders; 25 infielders; there are 48 pitchers and 7 catchers.
This is the complete list of players available for free agency:
GARDENERS
Almonte, Zoilo 2004 Cabrera, Melky 2008 Lagares, Juan 2008 Pérez, Juan Carlos 2009 Lake, Junior 2009 Rosario, Rainel 2010 Marte, Alfredo 2009 Mesa, Melky 2009 Ozuna, Marcel 2011 Peguero, Carlos 2007 Pérez, Eury 2010 Sierra, Moisés 2010 Beltré , Engel 2008 Castro, Leandro 2010 Tavárez, Aneury 2013 Paredes, Jimmy 2010 Puello, César 2010 Bonifacio, Emilio 2004 Rojas, Mel Jr 2011 Almonte, Abraham 2008 Moya, Steven 2011 Pie, Félix 2003 Santana, Danny 2011 Sosa, Rubén 2012 Pérez, Yefri 2014 Pimentel, Sandber 2015
INFIELDERS
Alcántara, Arismendy 2011 Calixte, Orlando 2011 Rodríguez, Ronny 2011 Villar, Jonathan 2010 Canó, Robinson 2002 Martínez, Michael 2007 Núñez, Gustavo 2008 Francisco, Juan 2007 Castro, Starlín 2009 Pujols, Albert 2002 Rodríguez, Aderlin 2011 Adames, Cristhian 2011 Florimón Pedro 2007 Navarro, Yamaico 2008 Goris, Diego 2013 Franco, Carlos 2013 Asencio, Yeison 2012 González, Luis 2015 Torres, Ramón 2014 Valenzuela, Luis 2015 Espinal, Edwin 2014 Mercedes, Melvin 2014 Canelo, Malquin Reyes, Pablo Rijo, Wendel
LAUNCHERS
Feliz, Neftalí 2007 Mariñez, Jhan 2009 Martínez, Carlos 2011 Liz, Radhamés 2006 Madrigal, Wagner 2004 Méndez, Roman 2011 Obispo, Wirfin 2006 Sosa, Henry 2007 De paula, José Alberto 2010 Cabera, Yordy 2011 Capellán, Víctor 2009 2010 Cisnero Díaz, José Rafael no draft Family, Jeurys 2009 Minaya, Juan 2010 Peralta, Wily 2009 Pimentel, Carlos 2009 Rodney, Fernando 2002 Sánchez, Ángel 2011 Cruz, Rhiner 2008 Gómez, Leuris 2010 Nova, Iván 2007 Romero, Enny 2011 Strop, Pedro 2004 Asencio, Jairo 2005 Bonilla, Lisalverto 2011 Cabral, César 2007 Germen, González 2011 Rogers, Esmil 2007 Valdez, César 2007 Vizcaíno, Arodys 2010 Santana, Ervin undrafted Abad, Fernando 2008 Domínguez, José García 2010, Edgar A 2006 Mejía, Jenrry 2009 Ramírez, José A 2010 Simón, Alfredo undrafted Valdes, Raúl 2008 Garcés, Frank 2012 Arias, Gabriel 2012 Álvarez, Darío 2014 Fernández, José 2015 Guduan, Reymín 2015 Peña, Richelson 2015 Santos, Luis 2014 Aro, Jonathan 2014 Joaquín, Ulises 2015
RECIPIENTS
Peña, Francisco 2008 Paulino, Carlos 2010 Sánchez, Gary 2011 Rivas, Webster 2013 Valerio, Charlie 2013 De La Cruz, Michael 2015 Mercedes, Yermín 2014
Erick Almonte, president of the Federation of Baseball Players, said that the rules establish that eligible players will be considered free agents from February 15 of each year, but for one month they will only be able to negotiate with their own clubs. Then it will be from March 15 onwards that eligible players who did not agree with their clubs will be able to listen to offers from other teams.
The team that signs a free agent will get two seasons of control over that player, plus a mutual option of the parties for a third season. After two seasons, the team will be able to activate the third-year option, but the player will be able to dispute his salary in arbitration if he disagrees with the club’s offer.
The requirements to be declared a free agent are to accumulate 65 weeks on the team’s available list, have 10 years of being selected in the rookie draft and have at least 18 weeks on the available list or 12 years of having been drafted. in the draw regardless of the availability time for your team.