After the season, he declared free agency and sought out a new challenge.

That is when eligible players are allowed to declare free agency.

With 165 veterans eligible to declare free agency, one thing is certain.

One example is the 15-day period in which the approximately 195 eligible players would be able to declare free agency.

And they are being sought not unlike professional athletes who have declared free agency.

He became a free agent on November 2, 2011, after declaring free agency.

Of the 118 players who are eligible, an unusually high number for the first day declared free agency yesterday.

If a player does not declare free agency, Cashman said, he would have to be released.

He declared free agency in November of that year.

His contract expired at the end of the season, and he declared free agency once again.