{"id":267075,"date":"2025-11-06T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267075\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:28:09","slug":"qualifying-offer-roundup-for-mlb-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267075\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualifying offer roundup for MLB free agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to extend a qualifying offer to eligible MLB players is Thursday at 5 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Players that receive a qualifying offer have until Nov. 18 to accept the one-year, $22.025-million contract or reject it and remain a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Players that do not accept the qualifying offer will be attached to draft-pick compensation, meaning any other team that signs those free agents will forfeit a 2026 draft selection. The value of that pick depends on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/glossary\/transactions\/qualifying-offer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">number of factors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A player can only receive a qualifying offer once in his career, and any player traded midway through the 2025 season is not eligible to receive one.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Players will be added throughout the day prior to the deadline. <\/p>\n<p>Player<br \/>\nPosition<br \/>\nTeam<\/p>\n<p>Bo Bichette<br \/>\nSS<br \/>\nBlue Jays<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen players received qualifying offers last offseason. Reds pitcher Nick Martinez was the only player to accept. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deadline to extend a qualifying offer to eligible MLB players is Thursday at 5 p.m. ET. Players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-267075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}