Overview
- This winter’s qualifying offer is $22.025 million, with teams deciding within five days after the World Series and players having roughly two weeks to accept or decline.
- MLB Trade Rumors pegs Bo Bichette, Kyle Schwarber and Kyle Tucker as certain recipients expected to reject the one-year offer.
- Newsweek, citing MLB Trade Rumors, reports the Yankees are likely to extend the offer to Trent Grisham despite the risk of an acceptance that would add a significant tax charge and yield only a post–fourth-round compensatory pick.
- Draft compensation and signing penalties scale by club tier, with revenue-sharing teams facing lighter forfeitures and potentially higher compensatory picks, mid-tier clubs losing a second-highest pick plus international pool space, and tax payors forfeiting multiple picks and $1 million while receiving only late-round compensation.
- The Astros’ luxury-tax status remains unsettled between salary-tracking sources, leaving the placement of any compensatory pick tied to Framber Valdez unclear until MLB releases official CBT figures in December.