Free agent qualifying offers have officially been issued across Major League Baseball, and 14 players were thus given the option of signing a one-year, $19.65 million contract for 2023.
Two of them were Yankees: Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo. Judge will obviously not be signing this, as the American League home run king has a huge payday in his future. There’s at least a chance that Rizzo will go for it, but he might be able to get a multi-year contract even with the draft pick compensation that accompanies signing someone who rejects a qualifying offer.
