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Twenty players received a one-year, $15.8 million qualifying offer from their teams as free agency opened on Friday. Those players have until 5 p.m. on Friday, November 13, to either accept the offer and return to their team on a one-year deal, or reject it and be tied to draft pick compensation as they hit free agency.
In the first three years of the qualifying offer system, all 35 players to receive offers from their teams declined and hit free agency attached to draft pick compensation. We will keep track of all twenty of this year's decisions below.
| DECISION? | Team | Free Agent |
| DECLINED | BAL | Wei-Yin Chen |
| DECLINED | BAL | Chris Davis |
| ACCEPTED | BAL | Matt Wieters |
| DECLINED | CHC | Dexter Fowler |
| DECLINED | CWS | Jeff Samardzija |
| ACCEPTED | HOU | Colby Rasmus |
| DECLINED | KC | Alex Gordon |
| ACCEPTED | LAD | Brett Anderson |
| DECLINED | LAD | Zack Greinke |
| DECLINED | LAD | Howie Kendrick |
| DECLINED | NYM | Daniel Murphy |
| DECLINED | SD | Ian Kennedy |
| DECLINED | SD | Justin Upton |
| DECLINED | SEA | Hisashi Iwakuma |
| DECLINED | STL | Jason Heyward |
| DECLINED | STL | John Lackey |
| DECLINED | TEX | Yovani Gallardo |
| RE-SIGNED | TOR | Marco Estrada |
| DECLINED | WSH | Ian Desmond |
| DECLINED | WSH | Jordan Zimmermann |