Fourteen players received a qualifying offer (a one-year, $19.65 million deal through 2023) this offseason, and the deadline to decide whether to accept it has passed.
Players who accepted the qualifying offer are signed with their teams for the upcoming season for the designated value. Those who didn’t accept remain free agents and if a new team signs them, the old club receives compensation in the form of draft spots. Since the system was implemented in 2012, only 11 of 110 players who received the qualifying offer have accepted it, not counting this year.
These were the decisions of each of the players who received a qualifying offer this winter:
THOSE WHO ACCEPTED THE QUALIFIED OFFER