Sox give no qualifying offers
Sunday 4pm is the deadline for teams to extend qualifying offers. Deadline to decline or accept is 10 days after the offer is extended. Players accepting the offer are immediately under contract for 1 year at $18.4 million. Players who decline become free agents, but if they sign with any team other than their former team, the signing team must surrender a draft pick to the former team.
https://www.mlb.com/news/predicting-the-2021-qualifying-offer-choices
This article predicts that Rodon will receive and reject the QO. I agree that the offer is almost certain to be extended but I lean towards thinking he'll accept it. Rejecting the offer can be perceived as Rodon believing that he won't perform well enough in 2022 to get a bigger contract than he could now.
Players extended qualifying offers (updated 11/7 14:00)
Reds: Castellanos
Mets: Conforto, Syndegaard
Blue Jays: Ray, Semien
Dodgers: C Seager
Rockies: Story
Astros: Correa
Braves: Freeman
Hahn’s comments Friday focused on internal options improving, be it a healthy Robert, younger players like Sheets and Vaughn improving, Kopech transitioning into the rotation, and Crochet into Kopech’s 2021 role.
If the off-season acquisitions boil down to
Leury ($8M/2 years)
Tepera or equivalent ($9M/2years)
Josh Harrison/Jose Iglesias type at 2B ($5M/1yr + team option or $1M Buyout)
Danny Duffy/Michael Wacha/Michael Pineda SP (1-2 years /$7-8M AAV)
Kimbrel for a prospect, bench and or low leverage bullpen piece or swingman
Will folks here be satisfied? Because this seems like what will likely occur based on their current payroll commitments.
Hahn said “his team was on the floor” after Hendricks, and has since added $19M, 10-15% of payroll, on Lance Lynn for 2022 (assuming Kimbrel’s $16M is gone). The Sox also have significant payroll bumps due for the Core the next two seasons.
