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Hurdled Again
“A Qualifying Offer is a one-year contract equal to the average salary of the 125 highest-paid players for the prior season.”
So I need to make my reliever a $14.1 million contract offer to qualify for a contract offer? I think I like the idea of the average of the five highest-paid players at THAT POSITION more, like the NFL. Are you going to pay a punter the average of the top 125 NFL contracts? Of course not. This works for the highest-paid players, too, because they probably see even bigger paydays. So big-money teams can keep their big-name, fading stars, and small-market teams can at least guarantee something in return for losing good players worth signing at those amounts.