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Davidson hit 46 homers for the Dinos in 2024 and 36 last year, but his .257/.358/.446 line this year was just about 60 points better than the league OPS in the KBO and that apparently was no longer good enough to keep him employed. At age 35, Davidson probably doesn’t have much of a future in MLB at this point, but perhaps some team hungry for power could take him on. He’s a lifetime .220/.290/.430 hitter with 54 homers in 1,112 major league plate appearances.

Encarnacion was DFA’ed off the Giants roster in May. The 28-year-old has hit .211/.237/.362 in 291 MLB plate appearances, but is a career .260/.359/.481 hitter with 54 homers in four seasons at the Triple-A level. He’ll look to re-establish his career overseas.

Bido was DFA’ed off the White Sox roster in May — it was his seventh organization in five months. He’ll try to re-establish himself in Japan.

The former big-leaguer was with the Blue Jays briefly last year after pitching to a 2.65 ERA in 2024 with the Phillies. Turnbull, still only 33, probably has a non-zero chance to make it back to the majors in some capacity if he pitches well and catches the right eyes.

thought he had given Nicaragua the lead earlier in the game, launching a towering drive to left that died just short of the wall. A couple innings later, he removed the ambiguity, crushing a 397-foot blast that left no doubt and put Nicaragua ahead. Unfortunately, the lead wouldn’t hold up as the Netherlands rallied for a walk-off victory. The 27-year-old former top prospect — one of the centerpiece returns in the Mookie Betts trade earlier this decade — hasn’t appeared in the majors since 2023, spending the last two seasons with the SoftBank Hawks in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. Careers rarely unfold in straight lines, and Downs’ path has bent more than most — but for one swing on Saturday, the narrative felt momentarily uncomplicated.

Cave spent the 2025 season with the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization. The 33-year-old has 523 MLB games to his record with a career slash of .232/.292/.400.

He’ll be sentenced on May 22. The 35-year-old faces up to 15 years in federal prison, though it doesn’t sound like prosecutors will aim for that. Puig initially made a deal to plead guilty to charges back in 2022 and would have gotten probation and a fine, but he backed out of it, resulting in the greatly delayed trial. Puig lied during a Jan. 2022 interview he voluntarily participated in regarding his bookmaker, Wayne Nix. Nix later pleaded guilty of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business.

Castro had agreed to a minor league deal with the Blue Jays, but the team released him on Monday so that he could pursue this opportunity. The 26-year-old hit .235/.324/.421 with 19 homers and 18 stolen bases for Triple-A Lehigh Valley in the Phillies organization in 2025.

Ureña played for five different teams in 2025, posting a 4.58 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, and 34/23 K/BB ratio in 55 innings. The 34-year-old has pitched over 1,000 MLB innings and will head overseas for the start of the 2026 campaign.

Veneziano was just signed in December, so make sure you get your money back for that custom jersey. The 28-year-old will get a chance to show his arsenal in Asia with a chance to return stateside in the coming years.