Major League Baseball declared on Sunday that young Cubans Jonatan Machado and Omar Estevez are free agents with eligibility to sign as part of this year's July 2 class.

Previously, the league had strictly enforced its general requirement that players seeking to sign as part of a given July 2 class register with the league by May 15 of the year in which they would become eligible to sign.

Overall, the league has granted exemptions to a dozen total players, according to a report by Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com. All of those situations have been resolved on a “case-by-case basis."