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\"Cespedes<\/a>

Cespedes was the only major QO winner this off-season. Photo via Business Insider<\/p><\/div>\n

While we bide our time for the opening of Spring Training, I thought I’d wrap up some off-season posts in draft mode…<\/p>\n

Every year since its inception i’ve done a “Qualifying Offer” wrap-up post (henceforth referred to as QO), as a way to provide some analysis of this salary-limiting vehicle that was such a major point of negotiations in the latest CBA. \u00a0It has been markedly changed for the coming years, changed in a way that favors the players and penalizes the smaller market teams “less” than the larger market teams.<\/p>\n

This off-season just 10 players took the Qualifying Offer, as compared to 20 the year before. \u00a0Here’s a summary table of those players:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Year<\/th>Player<\/th>Old Team<\/th>Previous Contract AAV<\/th>New Team<\/th>New contract AAV<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2016<\/td>Yoenis Cespedes<\/td>New York Mets<\/td>27.5M<\/td>New York Mets<\/td>$27.5M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Dexter Fowler<\/td>Chicago Cubs<\/td>13M<\/td>St. Louis<\/td>$16.4M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Justin Turner<\/td>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/td>5.1M<\/td>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/td>$16M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Edwin Encarnacio<\/td>Toronto<\/td>9.75M<\/td>Cleveland<\/td>$20M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Neil Walker<\/td>New York Mets<\/td>10.55M<\/td>New York Mets<\/td>$17.2M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Kenley Jansen<\/td>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/td>10.65<\/td>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/td>$16M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Ian Desmond<\/td>Texas<\/td>8m<\/td>Colorado<\/td>$14M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Jeremy Hellickson<\/td>Philadelphia<\/td>7m<\/td>Philadelphia<\/td>$17.2M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Jose Bautista<\/td>Toronto<\/td>13.16M<\/td>Toronto<\/td>$18M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Mark Trumbo<\/td>Baltimore<\/td>9.15M<\/td>Baltimore<\/td>$12.5M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Here’s a link to my full QO worksheet<\/a>, with more fields, more contract details and a history of all QO players dating to 2012.<\/p>\n

High-level Summary of the QOs:<\/p>\n