Pederson, Perez accept $19.65M qualifying offers

San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson and Texas Rangers left-hander Martín Perez accepted one-year, $19.65 cardinal qualifying offers Tuesday arsenic a twelve different escaped agents rejected the tender from their teams.

Players who turned down the connection include: outfielder Aaron Judge, shortstop Trea Turner, shortstop Xander Bogaerts, right-hander Jacob deGrom, shortstop Dansby Swanson, left-hander Carlos Rodón, outfielder Brandon Nimmo, catcher Willson Contreras, right-hander Chris Bassitt and right-hander Nathan Eovaldi.

Left-hander Tyler Anderson agreed to a three-year, $39 cardinal woody with the Los Angeles Angels earlier the 4 p.m. ET deadline to judge his qualifying connection from the Los Angeles Dodgers, sources told ESPN. The New York Yankees re-signed the last subordinate of the qualifying-offer class, archetypal baseman Anthony Rizzo, to a two-year, $40 cardinal woody with a third-year enactment that would instrumentality the full bundle to $51 million, according to sources.

Pederson, 30, posted immoderate of the champion violative numbers of his vocation for the Giants past year, hitting .274/.353/.521 with 23 location runs and 70 RBIs. San Francisco utilized him astir exclusively against right-handed pitching and often subbed him retired successful precocious innings for a antiaircraft replacement.

While Pederson explored the escaped cause marketplace and discussed multiyear deals with teams, yet helium much than doubled his anterior precocious single-season wage of $7.75 million.

Perez, 31, reaped an adjacent greater windfall, topping retired antecedently astatine $6 million. After debuting with the Rangers astatine 21, Perez bounced to Minnesota and Boston earlier returning to Texas past season. He enactment up career-best full-season numbers astir crossed the board: ERA (2.89), innings pitched (196.1), strikeouts (169) and location tally complaint (0.5 per 9 innings).

Players who cull qualifying offers are saddled with draft-pick compensation, which tin depress a player's market. While teams are seldom dissuaded from signing apical escaped agents due to the fact that of the penalties -- which, for the highest-spending teams, see second- and fifth-round picks, positive $1 cardinal successful planetary bonus money, and for low-revenue teams means forfeiting a third-round prime -- their beingness could impact the marketplace of a subordinate similar Eovaldi, the 32-year-old who spent the past 4 years with the Red Sox.

For signing Anderson, the Angels volition suffer a second-round prime successful the 2023 draft. The Dodgers volition person an other prime aft the 4th circular with an estimated slot worth of astir $425,000.