As the 5 p.m. ET deadline for teams to extend their impending free agents qualifying offers on Monday came and passed, 13 players received the one-year, $21.05 million offer.
To be eligible to receive a qualifying offer, impending free agents must not have ever received the offer and spent the entirety of the 2024 season with the same team.
Players will now have until 4 p.m. ET on Nov. 19 to accept or decline the offers. If they decline and proceed to sign with a new team, their former club will receive a compensation pick in the 2025 MLB Draft.
The 13 players to receive the offer are:
– Juan Soto, OF, New York Yankees
– Corbin Burnes, RHP, Baltimore Orioles
– Alex Bregman, 3B, Houston Astros
– Max Fried, LHP, Atlanta Braves
– Willy Adames, SS, Milwaukee Brewers
– Pete Alonso, 1B, New York Mets
– Anthony Santander, OF, Baltimore Orioles
– Teoscar Hernàndez, OF, Los Angeles Dodgers
– Nick Pivetta, RHP, Boston Red Sox
– Christian Walker, 1B, Arizona Diamondbacks
– Sean Manaea, LHP, New York Mets
– Luis Severino, RHP, New York Mets
– Nick Martinez, RHP, Cincinnati Reds
It was anticipated that Soto, Burnes, Bregman, Fried, Adames, Alonso, Santander, Hernández and Walker would all receive the offer.
The Red Sox were one of the teams to watch ahead of the deadline, with Canadians Pivetta and Tyler O’Neill eligible to be qualified. In the end, Boston extended the offer to Victoria, B.C.’s Pivetta after he posted a 4.14 ERA over 145.2 innings in 2024.
O’Neill led the Red Sox in home runs with 31 while hitting .241 after an off-season trade sent him to Boston.
Dodgers starter Walker Buehler, Philadelphia Phillies reliever Jeff Hoffman, San Diego Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim and outfielder Jurickson Profar, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres and reliever Clay Holmes and Cleveland Guardians starter Shane Bieber were among the players who were eligible to receive a qualifying offer but will now enter free agency without any compensation attached for potential suitors.
Some players who are free agents but were ineligible to receive the offer include Blake Snell, Yusei Kikuchi, Jack Flaherty, Tanner Scott and Nathan Eovaldi, among others.
According to MLB.com’s Mike Petriello, only 10 per cent of qualifying offers have been accepted since 2012. In 2023, all seven players who were extended the offer declined it.
This time around, it seems likely that the majority of the offers will once again be declined. However, Pivetta, Severino and Martinez will have the most difficult decisions of the 13.
