Major League Baseball's offseason calendar cleared an important deadline on Thursday: the qualifying offer deadline. In total, 13 free agents were extended a one-year tender that, if declined, could fetch their old teams draft-pick compensation. That group includes some of the biggest names in this class: like Chicago Cubs outfielder Kyle Tucker and Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette, or two of CBS Sports' top three free agents .

Each offseason, certain free agents are eligible for the qualifying offer (QO). Those eligible free agents are ones who have never before received the QO and who spent the prior season with only one team (e.g., players traded during the season cannot receive the QO). The QO is set as the average of the top 125 salaries for a given year, and for th

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