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Though the Dodgers’ slugger is expected to be in the lineup for the start of the team’s 2025 season — which will kick off with two games in Japan against the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo Dome — the two-way star was already uncertain to return to the mound by then after his Tommy John revision surgery last year.

Cody Bellinger, 29, OF, Boras: The former Dodgers elite center fielder and enigmatic hitter can opt out of the last two years and $52.5 million of his three-year, $80-million contract with the Chicago Cubs.

He played for the Chicago Cubs in 2016 when they overcame a three-games-to-one deficit against the Cleveland Indians to win the World Series.

But things got dark when he approached adulthood and had to flee his home to escape death from an older, stronger and very territorial male — his father, P-1 — whom researchers believe had already killed one of his mates and at least two of his cubs in the past.

"Look Trumpers I get it. As a kid I was a Cubs fan and I know you stick by your team no matter what but he's a traitor and a con man who doesn't care about you," Gaffigan wrote.