With Cody Bellinger officially given the non-tender, the former NL MVP is now set to hit free agency. This doesn’t quite close the door on Bellinger’s return to the Dodgers although it remains unlikely.
Until another team officially signs Bellinger, there’s still a chance. The decision to not tender Bellinger was clearly a hard one for Andrew Friedman and he would be the first to tell you he’d love a way to work out a deal between the two sides.
Bellinger has a chance to test the open market, but Friedman isn’t ready to completely give up yet (via Juan Toribio, MLB).