#pitching-market

#pitching-market

The QO is a one-year offer calculated by averaging the 125 highest salaries in MLB. This year's price is $22.025MM. Players who receive the QO have around two weeks to get an early feel for the market before deciding whether to accept. If they do, they cannot be traded without their consent until at least June 15 of the following season - as is the case for any MLB free agent who signs a major league deal.

Tarik Skubal is entering his last year of arbitration and trending towards the largest pitching contract in history if he stays healthy. Jon Heyman of The New York Post wrote this evening that Skubal could seek a deal of at least $400MM. Heyman reports that Detroit's extension offer last offseason was shy of the $170MM which Garrett Crochet received from the Red Sox in April.

Eugenio Suárez is not coming to the Bronx, because the Yankees traded for Ryan McMahon to be their third baseman instead.