Baseball's collective bargaining agreement expires in December, and a new CBA could change several aspects of the game moving forward, among them the qualifying offer process, expanded rosters and an international draft.
With the World Series about to get underway this week, we’ll take a look at some of those key topics involving a new CBA and how they could affect the Orioles in the not-so-distant future.
Today, we will take a look at the qualifying offer process, which awards draft-pick compensation when free agents who decline the qualifying offer sign elsewhere.
When the process was introduced four offseasons ago, the design was to level the playing field when teams lose their big-ticket free agents.