As of 6 a.m. PT on Sunday, the day after the World Series ended, all players with at least six years of major league service time who don’t have a contract for the 2026 season are now free agents, per Article XX(B) of the Major League Baseball collective bargaining agreement.

Seven Dodgers are now free agents, headlined by Clayton Kershaw, who is retiring after 18 seasons with Los Angeles. He’ll be joined in free agency by Kiké Hernández, Miguel Rojas, Michael Conforto, Andrew Heaney, Michael Conforto, and Kirby Yates.

Kershaw was relegated to an ancillary role during the postseason, pitching only twice in October in relief, including escaping a bases-loaded jam by retiring his only batter faced in the 12th inning in Monday’s 18-inning marathon Game 3 of the World Series.

But during the

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