5:01 PM ET
Jeff PassanESPN
- ESPN MLB insider
Author of "The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity successful Sports"
Fourteen escaped agents received qualifying offers from their erstwhile teams Thursday arsenic Major League Baseball escaped bureau officially began and players were escaped to motion with immoderate organization.
Among those tendered the offer, which is for a one-year, $19.65 cardinal declaration successful the 2023 season:
• New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge
• New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom
• Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner
• Boston Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts
• Atlanta Braves shortstop Dansby Swanson
• San Francisco Giants left-hander Carlos Rodón
• Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo
• Mets right-hander Chris Bassitt
• Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras
• Yankees archetypal baseman Anthony Rizzo
• Dodgers left-hander Tyler Anderson
• Texas Rangers left-hander Martín Perez
• Giants outfielder Joc Pederson
• Red Sox right-hander Nathan Eovaldi
Players person 10 days to determine whether to judge the offer. Teams that motion players who rejected the qualifying connection are penalized astatine slightest 1 draught choice.
The champion players typically crook down the connection without immoderate consequences. The qualifying connection has saddled capable escaped agents, however, that Anderson, Perez, Pederson and Eovaldi could see accepting it. Teams besides tin usage the qualifying connection successful hopes of moving retired a longer-term woody earlier the 10-day model expires