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Jacob deGrom, Chris Bassitt and Brandon Nimmo were three of the 14 free agents who were extended the qualifying offer by their teams. The 2023 qualifying offer is set at $19.65 million.
If players accept it, they’ll play out the one-year deal and then become free agents again in the following offseason.
The full list of players who received a qualifying offer are:
- Jacob deGrom
- Chris Bassitt
- Brandon Nimmo
- Aaron Judge
- Trea Turner
- Xander Bogaerts
- Dansby Swanson
- Willson Contreras
- Carlos Rodón (the White Sox didn’t extend one last offseason)
- Tyler Anderson
- Martin Perez
- Anthony Rizzo
- Nathan Eovaldi
- Joc Pederson
Taijuan Walker was not extended a QO, as Jon Heyman reported earlier in the day.
Of the non-Mets, Judge, Turner, Bogaerts, Swanson, Contreras, Rodón and likely Rizzo will all decline their offers. The cases of Anderson, Perez, Eovaldi and Pederson are more interesting. Players have 10 days to accept or decline the offer.
If players decline the offer and then sign elsewhere, the player’s original team gets draft pick compensation in the 2023 draft. (The Mets would get a fourth-round pick if one of their guys sign elsewhere.)
On the flip side, a team that signs a player who was extended the qualifying offer will forfeit varying levels of picks in the draft based on if the team exceeded the luxury tax or not. The Mets, of course, did and would forfeit their second- and fifth-round pick along with $1 million in international bonus pool money if they signed someone like Judge or Turner.
The qualifying offer was set to not exist anymore with the new collective bargaining agreement, however, MLB and the MLB Players Association couldn’t agree to an international draft, so the qualifying offer remains for the 2022-2026 CBA.
