{"id":9147,"date":"2014-10-07T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T03:49:14","slug":"free-agent-qualifying-offers-set-at-15-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/07\/free-agent-qualifying-offers-set-at-15-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agent qualifying offers set at $15.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9148\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/victormartinez.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/victormartinez.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/victormartinez-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe price of qualifying offers to eligible free agents has riven to $15.3 million. That is up from the $14.1 million from a year ago reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/free-agent-qualifying-offer-price-set-at-15-3m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball\u2019s labour contract sets the price at the average of the 125 highest contracts by average annual value.<\/p>\n<p>Clubs have until 5 pm ET on the fifth day following the World Series to make a qualifying offer to players. Players will then have until 5 pm ET on the 12th day following the World Series to accept.<\/p>\n<p>Players who reject the offer and then sign with another club prior to the June amateur draft will net their old team a draft pick as compensation at the end of the first round. The club signing the player will lose its first round pick unless their pick is in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>None of the 22 qualifying offers made after the last two seasons were accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of qualifying offers to eligible free agents has riven to $15.3 million. That is up from the $14.1 million from a year ago reports the Associated Press. Baseball\u2019s labour contract sets the price at the average of the 125 highest contracts by average annual value. Clubs have until 5 pm ET on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9149,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}