"Thirteen players have received a qualifying offer this year, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN. The list is as follows: This year's QO is valued at $22.025MM. All 13 players will have the next 15 days to decide whether to accept that one-year offer or decline and become a free agent. They can spend that time gauging the open market to determine interest in their services."
"If a player accepts the QO, he'll be treated as a free agent signing and thus will be ineligible to be traded without his consent until June 15 of next year. If he declines, any team that signs him will be subject to draft and/or international bonus forfeitures, depending on its revenue-sharing and luxury tax status."
"The bulk of the list was generally expected. Every recipient other than Torres and Imanaga (who wasn't a free agent at the time of that preview) was pegged as likely or a no-doubter to receive the QO on MLBTR's annual lists of qualifying offer previews for position players and for pitchers. Torres was viewed as something of a long shot, at least on the MLBTR staff."
Thirteen players received a qualifying offer valued at $22.025MM and have 15 days to accept the one-year offer or decline and become free agents. Players can use the period to gauge market interest. Acceptance treats the player as a free agent signing and prevents trades without consent until June 15 of the following year. Declination means any signing team may face draft and/or international bonus forfeitures based on revenue-sharing and luxury tax status. Most recipients were widely expected, with Torres and Imanaga noted as exceptions; Imanaga was not a free agent at the time of previews and Torres was considered a long shot.
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