By Andrew Baggarly @ CSNBayArea.com
http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/giants-extend-qualifying-offer-sandoval
SAN FRANCISCO – The Giants extended a $15.3 million qualifying offer to Pablo
Sandoval on Monday, ensuring they’ll at least receive draft pick compensation
if he signs with another club.
But the hope remains that the team can come to terms with their clutch-hitting
third baseman on a multiyear contract. Those negotiations will take place on
the open market, since the Giants’ window of exclusivity closes Monday at 9
p.m. PST and club officials did not anticipate any last-minute dealings.
Sandoval’s camp turned down a three-year, $40 million offer in the spring, and
at the time, sought to use Hunter Pence’s five-year, $90 million deal as a
floor in talks. There have been no substantive conversations between Sandoval’
s agents and the team since that time.
Sandoval’s price most certainly shoots up now that he can negotiate on a
relatively thin open market where demand far outweighs supply.
SFG在週一對功夫熊貓提出QO（今年的QO定值：15.3M），這樣一提，就算沒留下他，至少也
可以獲得熊貓新東家的選秀權。
但熊貓以複數年合約留在SFG的希望也還沒破滅，接下來他們會在自由市場裡談判。
季前，功夫熊貓陣營拒絕了一份3年40M的合約，那時候他們尋求一份「至少」與內褲隊長5
年90M合約同等的合約。從那時候開始，SFG與熊貓的經紀人的談判就陷入僵局。
熊貓現在的價值絕對上升了，現在他到貧瘠的自由市場試試水溫，今年自由市場需求遠大於
供應啊～。
The qualifying offer was procedural and Sandoval is certain to decline it
before the Nov. 10 deadline. In two years under the current Collective
Bargaining Agreement, all 22 free agents that have been extended a qualifying
offer have declined it.
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The one-year offer does not preclude the Giants from discussing a multiyear
deal with Sandoval. It merely guarantees them a draft pick at the end of the
first round if the popular Panda signs with another team.
The Giants did not extend a qualifying offer to three other free agents: Ryan
Vogelsong, Sergio Romo and Michael Morse. One more free agent, Jake Peavy,
couldn't be extended an offer because he was acquired in July.
QO的提出不過就是個程序，功夫熊貓也一定會拒絕的（DL：11/10）。在新版談判協議過後
的兩年，22位收到QO的FA都拒絕了他們的QO。
雖然QO是一年合約，但這並不代表SFG拒絕跟熊貓討論長約。這只是保險，熊貓被簽走，他
們還是能拿到選秀順位。
SFG並未向下列FA提QO：佛光山、ROMO、Morse。至於PV，他七月才入隊，不符合QO資格。
Although he hit just .279/.324/.415, and for all the consternation regarding
his conditioning, Sandoval made himself into a Gold Glove finalist at third
base this season and he continued to come up big when it mattered most. He has
a .344 batting average in the postseason and hit .366 this October with six
doubles, five RBIs and 12 runs scored in 17 games. His 26 hits this month
established a major league record for one postseason, passing up the previous
record of 25 held by Marquis Grissom and Darin Erstad.
In 12 career World Series games, Sandoval is batting .426 with four doubles,
three home runs, eight RBIs and nine runs scored. He didn’t crush three home
runs this time, like he did in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series on the way to
MVP honors, but he reached safely in all four plate appearances Wednesday –
including three times when leading off an inning