Every November, teams let go literally dozens of players from their minor-league systems. Some of these players at one time were high draft picks; they obviously never panned out for various reasons. Others have had some big-league experience.

Here’s the full list of minor-league free agents, via Baseball America.

19 of those players were in the Cubs organization this year:

Quite a number of those players, including Acevedo, Rucinski, Negron and Perez, played in spring-training games for the Cubs this year. Federowicz and (famously) Matusz appeared in big-league games during the regular season for the Cubs.

The Cubs have already re-signed one of these players to a minor-league deal:

#Cubs (Andury Acevedo) and #Brewers (Yhonathan Barrios) quickly re-sign free agent RHPs to minors deals after spending 2016 on 40-man roster — Matt Eddy (@MattEddyBA) November 14, 2016

The other reason I am posting this is for you to look through that link and see if you can identify minor-league free agents who could help the Cubs in 2017, either for the big-league team or as injury insurance in the minors. There are plenty of people with significant major-league experience on that list, as well as some ex-Cubs you will certainly recognize.

Is there any possible help here? The Cubs will certainly make some more minor-league signings in the coming weeks.