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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5227245, member: 1969"] You are correct. You need to offer a fixed qualifying amount to a pending free agent in order to get draft compensation. If you don't give him a Qualifying offer no harm is done in your ability to resign the player, but you aren't getting a draft pick either. This year the qualifying offer is $21 million. Teams only offer it to players who have that level of market value or more.. so that only the top free agents get compensation. Only 13 FA's were offered arbitration this year. The interesting offers were Nick Pivetta of the Red Sox and Nick Martinez of the Reds. I think both of them will be happy to accept the $21m qualifying offer. The system used to be far more complex in the 80's and 90's. This system is much easier now. [/QUOTE]