QUALIFYING OFFERS
So Kuroda, the pitcher for the Yankees that was open to a 1 year contract before being given the QO, and was the only one expected to accept, is now likely not to, with today being the deadline to accept for all players.
That means in the first year of this model, no one accepted. I don’t see that changing.
I guess there may be that one or two guys a year, that were likely to get a max of two years on the market, and 13 per (or whatever the QO is that year) is pretty close to their value, but because the offer is there, and a pick is attached, they are now not going to see that second year, or more money than the 13, so they accept because they were painted into a corner.
Interesting balancing act. Rizzo was pretty blunt in his statement that we did not extend to E-JAX out of fear he would accept.
I’m not sure how I feel about it. I think it’s less convoluted than the Type A, Type B stuff and that is an improvement, and rather than have some outside source say these guys qualify and these guys don’t, this puts the onus on the teams to determine who qualifies…but if it is rarely accepted, then it’s just posturing. Seems like a lot of ink and phone calls for stuff that is pretty clear what is going to happen.
I suppose for the pick to be attached, the team has to have something holding them to their committment (however minimal) to the player, otherwise there is no balance, but it seems like a lot to do about nothing.
Coming up on when these pieces start to move and picks are attached, how do you guys feel about this versus the A/B model?
