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Lunchbox45
Under the new rules aren’t the angels not eligible to receive a pick because they acquired Grienke this year?
cookmeister
I believe that is correct. The MLB wanted to get rid of teams acquiring relievers midseason to benefit by getting draft picks after the season. With the new system and lack of type A and B free agents anymore, it isn’t really as bad as we\it was, but I am pretty sure you can’t get picks unles they were with you the whole season.
Mike Mark Sopp
To my understanding thats correct – teams can no longer pick up a rental player and then let him go for draft picks.
David Dean Conner II
yeah Angels get no pick for a qualifying offer for Greinke
theperfectgame
Wonder what impact the shortened window has on things. Don’t players only have a few days to accept/reject the qualifying offer? Under prior rules it was weeks before offers from teams were even due, let alone accept/reject decisions. Free agents basically have a month less to guage their market value ahead of their decision. Should be interesting.
cookmeister
does anyone know how qualifying offers impact players with options? For example if the Angels were to decline Haren’s option but make him a qualifying offer, would they be eligible to get draft pick compensation?
Kevin Swords
Yes, the Angels can decline Haren’s $15.5MM team option ($3.5MM buyout) and extend a qualifying offer to him. If he declines the qualifying offer and heads to free agency, then the Angels are entitled to draft compensation from the signing team (although top 10 picks are protected). With the buyout in mind, the Angels will basically need to ask themselves if Haren is worth $12MM for one year. However, I’d doubt they would want to decline the option, pay $3.5MM for the buyout, and then have him accept a qualifying offer (believed to be in the $13MM-$14MM range) which would essentially have him under contract for 1 year at $16.5MM-$17.5MM.
John 96
It would cost the Angels $3.5 million to decline Haren’s $13.5 million option. Since a qualifying offer would be around $13.5 million anyway they would not give him a $3.5 million dollar raise to $17 million because he would probably accept it.
Anyway, I’m fairly sure a team can’t decline an option in order to make a qualifying offer. In most instances it would be giving the player a raise so they would likely take it anyway.
go_jays_go
A team most certainly can decline an option and then make a qualifying offer. However, the question becomes, does it make sense?
mehs
Have a feeling Nick Swisher might accept the qualifying offer from the Yankees. Not sure that he gets $13-14 Million per on the open market especially if teams have to give up picks to get him, same for Soriano since he’d also get an extra $1.5 for declining his option. Jake Peavy is another one who might get his $22 Million option declined and then get a qualifying offer.
go_jays_go
It depends on what Swisher is offered.
If it came down to years vs money, I’m pretty sure Swisher will accept more years.
If I were Nick Swisher, I would much rather take 3yrs/$30m than 1yr/$13.4m.
LazerTown
Napoli, Hamilton, Bourn, Peavy, Mariano, and Hiroki.
Thats it.