MLB teams are officially able to sign free agents starting Friday, Nov. 6, at 11:59 pm ET.
Also on Friday, teams must decide whether to make a one-year, $15.8 million qualifying offer to their own free agent players. The offer will allow the team to be eligible for draft pick compensation should the player sign with another organization.
Matthew Cerrone: Daniel Murphy is the only player Sandy Alderson will be thinking about, as it pertains to a qualifying offer. Murphy is not likely to accept it, since he can almost certainly get a more lucrative, multi-year deal. However, as much as the Mets would like the draft pick in case he leaves for another team, $15.8 million isn’t bad for one year of work. So, depending on what he believes his market will be, it’s possible he could accept and return to the Mets for one season. We’ll see…
Murphy earned $8 million this past season, which was his final year of salary arbitration. The New York Post’s Joel Sherman recently talked to league sources who believe Murphy could end up with a deal similar to the four-year, $52 million contract the Yankees recently gave to 3B Chase Headley (Oct. 19, 2015).
Murphy, as well as the other 40 players likely to receive qualifying offers, will have seven days to accept or reject the offer.
Cespedes, LHP Jerry Blevins, RHP Tyler Clippard, RHP Bartolo Colon, IF Kelly Johnson, LHP Eric O’Flaherty, RHP Bobby Parnell and IF Juan Uribe also filed for free agency on Monday.
The Mets are prohibited from making a qualifying offer to Cespedes because of language put in his contract with the Oakland A’s in 2012.
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