On December 7, 2019, one day after he was designated for assignment by the Mets, Chris Flexen signed a one-year, $1 million contract with the Doosan Bears of the KBO, the maximum allowable sum a team is allowed to signed a rookie foreign free agent for. Having struggled in limited innings in 2019- and indeed, his entire professional career at the major league level- the monetary value may have come as a surprise for some.
In the end, the Bears scouting and analytics departments would prove to be prescient, as the right-hander would go on to post a 3.