{"id":19300,"date":"2025-11-10T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19300"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:13:13","slug":"minor-league-free-agent-departures-define-a-new-wave-for-the-nats-upper-minors-in-2026-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19300","title":{"rendered":"Minor League Free Agent Departures define a new wave for the Nats upper minors in 2026 and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nick Schnell, who bashed for us in AAA this year, is probably the highest profile MLFA we had declared in this period, and the one main MLFA player I hope we can retain. Photo via IndianaRBI.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

11\/6\/25 was a big moving day in baseball: its 5 days after the World Series ended, and on the same day all 60-day DL guys (in the majors and minors) have to be returned to active roster status, and all free agents are declared. In the majors, that means the “exclusive” bargaining period ends (which is almost never used anymore), but more importantly to this site and this audience, it means that dozens of prospects that we’ve sometimes tracked for 6-7 years are now cut loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a look at the churn at both the 40-man level and in the minors. All these moves are now updated on the Big Board<\/a>, as well as the Draft Tracker<\/a> and the IFA tracker<\/a> and my internal Nats Prospect Rankings page, which saw a slew of guys I had ranked just a few weeks ago get cut loose. I’ll talk about them below in a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Major League Free Agents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n