Qualifying Offers, New First-Rounders & Getting Right Back Into Drafts
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the players on the receiving end of Qualifying Offers, as well as a few notable omissions including Clayton Kershaw, Carlos Rodón and Jon Gray, before examining the first round of their very early 2022 Draft Champions Leagues.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, November 8th, Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. It is the most |
| 0:23.4 | wonderful time of the year. It is qualifying offer season in Major League Baseball. Yes, this is |
| 0:30.2 | what I live for. I lived to know who and who did not receive qualifying offers from their |
| 0:34.9 | respective teams. Who will have draft pick compensation attached if another team decides to sign these |
| 0:40.6 | players in free agency and just how messed up health-wise are the players who did not receive |
| 0:45.4 | qualifying offers? |
| 0:46.6 | These are the things that keep me warm at night, you know? |
| 0:50.3 | I was just saying it's house shoot season. |
| 0:52.1 | Those are the things that keep me warm. |
| 0:54.0 | The funny thing about this is, is any of this going to be the case in two months? |
| 1:00.7 | It's like with the new CBA, will there be qualifying offers? |
| 1:05.9 | I mean, there's some, I think there's at least one proposal from the union side that basically gets rid of qualifying offers. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah, you don't want this if you're a player. |
| 1:17.0 | Qualifying offers are not a good thing for you. |
| 1:19.3 | You'd rather just be unencumbered going into the market. |
| 1:22.3 | So I am, of course, joking. |
| 1:24.7 | I am not as into qualifying offers as it may seem, |
| 1:27.8 | but they're fun to talk about. |
| 1:30.0 | Somebody was saying that J.D. Martinez, |
| 1:33.2 | maybe the best move for him. |
| 1:34.5 | It's not the move he made. |
| 1:35.5 | He picked up his $19 million option, player option. |
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