The MLB qualifying offer for the 2023 season is valued at $19.65 million, which represents an increase from the one-year salary for this year that had declined.
In 2021, the qualifying offer was $18.9 million. However, it decreased to $18.4 million in 2022. The qualifying offer value is determined by taking the average of the game’s 125 highest-paid players.
The system has been in place since 2012 and seen 110 players be extended a qualifying offer. Of those, only 11 have accepted the one-year pact; including Brett Anderson with the Los Angeles Dodgers for 2016, and Hyun-Jin Ryu for 2019.
A player must have spent the entire season with one team in order to be eligible for a qualifying offer. Furthermore, a player can only be extended the qualifying offer once in his career.
The qualifying offer deadline for the 2023 season is 2 p.m. PT on Thursday, November 10. Players then will have five days — until Tuesday, Nov. 15 — to accept or decline it.
If a player rejects it and goes on to sign a contract with a new team, the club losing the free agent receives compensation. What specifically that is depends on the value of the contract and if the team(s) involved exceeded the luxury tax threshold, received revenue sharing, or none of those two.
As part of negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), MLB and the Players Association (MLBPA) agreed to eliminate the qualifying offer from the free agency process if an agreement was reached on an international draft.
That deadline passed in July without an international draft implemented, which meant sticking with the status quo.
Which Dodgers will receive a qualifying offer?
Dodgers free agents likely to be extended the $19.65 million qualifying offer are Tyler Anderson and Trea Turner.
Clayton Kershaw could fall into that category as well, but the Dodgers may once again elect not to in order to avoid placing him under a timeline as the 34-year-old contemplates his future.
Though unlike last offseason, Kershaw is healthy and already indicated he would play a 16th career season rather than retire.
Andrew Heaney is another who conceivably may be extended the one-year pact, but he appears to be much more unlikely than Anderson, Kershaw and Turner.
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