{"id":950351,"date":"2026-11-02T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950351\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:32:13","slug":"yankees-extend-qualifying-offer-to-david-bednar-not-jazz-chisholm-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950351\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees extend qualifying offer to David Bednar, not Jazz Chisholm Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The deadline for teams to tender qualifying offers to their pending free agents came and passed today at 5 p.m. EST. The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Joelsherman1\/status\/2117371873352896850?a=dlE4yG8TQNh8D3u6cqQ&amp;s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yankees reportedly<\/a> tendered an offer to only one player, reliever David Bednar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This was the expected outcome for the Bombers, but it\u2019s still notable that Bednar was the only one they saw fit for a QO. It seemed very plausible ahead of the 2026 season that Jazz Chisholm Jr. would receive an offer as he headed into free agency, but an inconsistent campaign for the infielder convinced the Yankees to let Chisholm become a free agent without any restraints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bednar now has about two weeks (until November 17th) to decide whether to accept the $23.15 million QO, or to reject it and test the waters. The general expectation seems to be that Bednar will not accept the offer, though stranger things have happened, and it\u2019s not unheard of for non-elite free agents who to flounder on the market after receiving and rejecting a qualifying offer. Accepting the offer would make Bednar the highest paid reliever in MLB on a per-year basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Though the Yankees got burned the last time a player accepted a QO (see: Grisham, Trent), they obviously wouldn\u2019t be upset to see Bednar return on a one-year pact. Top-end relievers typically earn in the $20+ million range in free agency these days, and Bednar was a stabilizing force at the back of the Yankee bullpen for the last season and a half even as he progresses through his early-30\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If Bednar rejects the offer and signs elsewhere, the Yankees will be in line for draft-pick compensation. Bednar is one of eight players to receive the offer this year: Randy Arozarena, Jake Bauers, Seiya Suzuki, Trevor Rogers, Adrian Morej\u00f3n, Ryan Jeffers, and Brandon Lowe all also received the QO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deadline for teams to tender qualifying offers to their pending free agents came and passed today at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85,168123],"class_list":["post-950351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yankees-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950351","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=950351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}