Qualifying offer

[Minnesota Twins]

At the end of a players contract you can extend a qualifying offer equal to 150% of their final year of the contract (1.5 times last yr). The qualifying offer is good for one year only then the player gets to go to free agency.

Added: Each team can extend one qualifying offer to one player per year.

Yay or Nay?

[Deleted]

Nay

[torontobluejays]

Nay

[Deleted]

As proposed, Nay

Higher increase on the QO price tag

What if we made it a flat price? $7.5 mil for a pitcher, $10 mil for position player coming off the last year of their rookie deal? Pitcher QO is a little cheaper only because of the volatility built in with Pitchers

[New York Yankees]

Yay for me!

[San Diego]

Yay

[Texas Rangers]

Yay

[Deleted]

Yay

[Minnesota Twins]

Yay

[Deleted]

This proposal does not specify if it’s one QO per team or is for any player you want.

I’m only in favor we only allow one per team per year

[Minnesota Twins]

I added it Boston. One QO per team to hand out to one player per year.

[Texas Rangers]

Good catch Boston. Also i'm assuming "then the player gets to go to free agency" implies that you can't have the same player on a QO back to back years?

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I vote yes

[Minnesota Twins]

yes you only QO once at the end of a contract, no qualifying the qualifier!

[Detroit]

As written, nay.

I agree with Chicago about it being a higher rate. 2x players last year salary, cause the whole league is gonna extend a rookie or cheaper player. There should be a penalty for keeping a player longer than their assigned contract term. 2x even seems cheap.

I agree with 1 per team / year. Then back into the FA auction.