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Indians Will Make Qualifying Offer To Carlos Santana

By Steve Adams | November 6, 2017 at 2:48pm CDT

TThe Indians will extend a one-year, $17.4MM qualifying offer to first baseman Carlos Santana, reports FanRag’s Jon Heyman (on Twitter). Santana will have 10 days to determine whether to accept or reject that $17.4MM contract. If he rejects, any club that signs him this winter will forfeit a draft pick (or picks), while Cleveland will stand to recoup a pick in the 2018 draft should he sign elsewhere. For more details on the specifics of the QO system, check out MLBTR’s previous primer on the newly restructured system.

The 31-year-old switch-hitter batted .259/.363/.455 with 23 home runs and career-best work at first base in 2017. While the market for corner bats hasn’t been great in recent years, Santana’s defensive improvements, power and longstanding reputation as one of baseball’s most patient hitters (career 15.2 percent walk rate) should serve him well on the open market even with draft-pick compensation attached to his name.

Eric Hosmer is most commonly projected to top the free-agent market for first basemen given his youth and enormous production in his walk year, but we pegged Santana as the second-best option at the position on our annual Top 50 free agent list, pegging him for a three-year deal in the $45MM range and noting that a fourth year is certainly a possibility. The QO won’t help Santana to maximize his earning capacity, but he’s a more well-rounded player than many of his more one-dimensional peers at first base.

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  1. bheath33

    3 years ago

    He better take that 17mil

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    • redsox 1976

      3 years ago

      3/45m Boston

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      • baseballpun

        3 years ago

        4/85 Boston, will be back with CLE, who will be paying the minimum, by 2020.

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        • layventsky

          3 years ago

          A la Pablo Sandoval?

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    • lysander

      3 years ago

      17 plus a shot at a ring; he should take it.

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      • Cardinals17

        3 years ago

        Agreed!

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  2. alexgordonbeckham

    3 years ago

    The way the market has played out for 1B over 30 the last few years, does it seem likely he could take the QO?

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    • DonKieballs

      3 years ago

      I feel like his strong defense and remarkable walk rates separate him from your typical power hitter 1B of years past.

      His age and now QO are against him but it’ll be hard for a team with a larger payroll not to give him atleast $15 mil a year. I think it would be smart for him to decline the QO financially speaking.

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  3. pepesilvia

    3 years ago

    I expected this.

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  4. Brixton

    3 years ago

    Man, I’d be tempted to take that if I’m him. 1B/DH types haven’t faired well recently

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  5. Polish Hammer

    3 years ago

    Glad they extended it, it’s expected he’s going to decline it. You figure even if he gets shut out of a long term deal at big bucks, he can find a one year deal to prove it and get back out in the market next year.

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  6. davbee

    3 years ago

    I could see the Mariners being in on Santana.

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  7. ThorsHammer34

    3 years ago

    Any shot Santana would catch again?

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    • El Duderino

      3 years ago

      Only if it goes 24 innings and the backup catcher suffers an injury.

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    • indiansfan44

      3 years ago

      Very unlikely. He was moved from catcher mainly due to concussion issues and would be a risk to put him there again.

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    • sufferfortribe

      3 years ago

      Let’s hope not. Or play 3B, either.

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    • Polish Hammer

      3 years ago

      But he is a total team player willing to play wherever to help the team out.

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      • sufferfortribe

        3 years ago

        Just like Chisenhall, Ramirez, Gonzalez…..and Michael Martinez.

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    • mlb1225

      3 years ago

      Maybe as the emergency catcher.

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  8. Solaris601

    3 years ago

    This is one of those rare cases where the team extending the QO actually hope that the player accepts it.

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    • Mattimeo09

      3 years ago

      You’re not wrong. He could bridge the gap for Bobby Bradley. A 1 year deal would be more preferable than a 4 year

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