That is incorrect. As we saw with Jiménez and Drew (etc.), QOs have value and in cases where the player is going to get something around the QO, it may have great value in depressing other team's interest. If the Sox give a QO, I suspect no other team is going to sign Koji for 2/$20 if they have to give up a first-round draft pick.Night of the Keyboard said:My point is that the right to make an QO has no value as it is an overpay. Uehara controls the situation as he can either give the Sox a discount or he can pusue market value somewhere else at around 2/20.
Japanese culture values loyalty so he may very well accept a discount.
I find it odd we are having these discussion about team options and the value of QOs particularly after what the Sox have been through in the past year.