It’s official: the amount of baseball’s qualifying offer to potential free agents will be worth a record $22.025 million this offseason.

The majority of free agents will be eligible though it’s likely only a handful will actually receive offers. Players traded during the previous season, or those who have received qualifying offers previously are not eligible.

The figure is arrived at as an average of the 2025 salaries of the top 125 highest players in the game.

The Red Sox have as many as six eligible free agents, but several won’t be eligible and others wouldn’t match that value. Free agents can accept the qualifying offer and be under contract for that figure for the following season; if they reject the offer, they remain free agents but would then carry compensation costs for their

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