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Qualifying offers: MLB needs to eliminate them

Qualifying offers in baseball are essentially a short-term solution for a team’s roster as well as a detrimental deal for players seeking long-term contracts.  A qualifying offer is a one-year contract offer worth the average of the top 125 salaries from the previous season. Players are eligible to receive a qualifying offer if they have […]

What Baseball Player Turns Down $15.3 Million?

There are 12 baseball players who turned down $15.3 million Monday afternoon. They were all free agents who received qualifying offers of that amount to stay with their current clubs. By declining the one-year offer each received, they all become free agents and are eligible to sign with any ball club. One of those players, […]