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Top Ten Chicago Cubs Free Agent Signings of All Time

By Tab Bamford, March 12, 2010 at 12:40 am

As Cubs fans collectively take a deep breath and flush twice after the reminder this week that Milton Bradley was on the roster last year, I thought it might be nice to look back at free agent acquisitions that actually earned their money.

The one rule I followed in putting this list together is that each player had to originally come to the Cubs as a free agent. So Jody Davis, who was selected in the Rule V Draft in 1980, didn't qualify. Neither did Greg Maddux's second tour of duty in Chicago.

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Tags: Andre Dawson, Chicago Cubs, Dave Kingman, free agent, Mark DeRosa, MLB, Moises Alou, Rod Beck, Ryan Dempster, Ted Lilly

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