{"id":5069,"date":"2012-11-05T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T19:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2012-11-05T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T20:36:43","slug":"why-no-qualifying-offer-for-edwin-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5069","title":{"rendered":"Why no Qualifying Offer for Edwin Jackson?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edwin Jackson seems destined for another organization in 2013. Photo AP via wjla.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Buster Olney<\/strong> just asked the same question that i’ve been wondering; why didn’t the Nats extend a Qualifying Offer<\/a> to FA to be Edwin Jackson<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

They paid him $11m in 2012; a qualifying offer for 2013 would have been $13.3M, a decent raise from the $11M Jackson made this year. \u00a0But, in a weaker FA market for starters this off-season, Jackson seems almost certain to get a 3 or 4 year deal at or near his 2012 salary in AAV. \u00a0He’s healthy, he’s dependable and he’s durable, even if he’s not a #1 or #2 starter.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the team was worried that Jackson, having lived on year-to-year deals and seemingly comfortable gambling his long-term financial future by accepting these one-year deals (seemingly a product of his itinerant, military-family upbringing), would have just taken them up on the $13.3M offer (it representing a nice raise from 2012’s $11M) and suddenly the Nats would be “stuck” with a guy they didn’t want back. \u00a0That’s the only way to read the lack of an Q.O. extension.<\/p>\n

Otherwise the lack of the offer makes no sense; if you think Jackson is searching for a multi-year deal, and if it seems certain that he’ll find it in a weak market, then the Q.O. guarantees a supplemental first round pick for the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buster Olney just asked the same question that i’ve been wondering; why didn’t the Nats extend a Qualifying Offer to FA to be Edwin Jackson? They paid him $11m in 2012; a qualifying offer for 2013 would have been $13.3M, a decent raise from the $11M Jackson made this year. \u00a0But, in a weaker FA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[363,253],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-buster-olney","tag-edwin-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}