13 Free Agents Receive Qualifying Offers

The deadline to extend one-year, $14.1MM qualifying offers to impending free agents has passed, and 13 players received such offers:

• Carlos Beltran
• Robinson Cano
• Shin-Soo Choo
• Nelson Cruz
• Stephen Drew
• Jacoby Ellsbury
• Curtis Granderson
• Ubaldo Jimenez
• Hiroki Kuroda
• Brian McCann
• Kendrys Morales
• Mike Napoli
• Ervin Santana

Each of these 13 players will have one week to decide whether they wish to accept or reject the offer. In order to sign a player that rejects a qualifying offer, a team will have to forfeit a top draft pick. Because the first 11 picks are protected in this year's draft, the Astros, Marlins, Cubs, White Sox, Twins, Mariners, Phillies, Rockies, Blue Jays and Mets will forfeit a second-round pick to sign a player who rejects a qualifying offer. All other teams will be forced to forfeit their first-round pick.

The player's former team does not receive the pick that is forfeited, but rather will receive a compensatory pick at the end of the first round. As it stands, the Yankees and Red Sox each have a chance to receive three extra first-round picks in 2014 should all three of their qualified free agents reject an offer and sign with a new team.

The 13 qualifying offers represent an increase over last offseason, when only nine players received the offer. None of those nine accepted the offer, though some — most notably Kyle Lohse — saw their market value heavily impacted by their ties to draft pick compensation.