Free-agent contracts can last just seven years, but clubs can go to eight years to re-sign their own players.

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He can become a free agent after the World Series, and Boras prefers his clients to go free to increase their values.

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Silicon Valley pretty much invented the "free agent" model of hiring for new skills rather than training and letting workers go once those skills aren't needed.

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Paul also is a free agent July 1, leaving plenty of decisions to be made about where the Clippers go from here.

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Now it seems like every team has that kind of money, but when I was a free agent, not that long ago, there were only a few teams you could really go to.

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