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Phillies’ qualifying offers make sense despite inevitable outcome

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The baseball offseason already feels like it's in full swing despite being just days old. The Philadelphia Phillies have already cleared up their contract options for next year and on Thursday announced that they are officially extending qualifying offers to their two eligible free agents, Kyle Schwarber and Ranger Suárez.

The Phillies front office had until Thursday at 5:00 p.m. ET to extend their offers. This year the offer was set at $22.025 million, averaged from the salaries of the top 125 highest-paid players. Schwarber and Suárez have until Nov. 18 to accept ot reject their offer.