According to Eric Fisher, the qualifying offer has been set at $15.8M for this offseason. That’s up from $15.3M last year. The qualifying offer is set at the average of the top 125 salaries in baseball each season. The deadline to make the qualifying offer is five days after the end of the World Series. Players then have a week to accept or reject.
As far as the Yankees as concerned, the qualifying offer amount doesn’t matter. They only have three Major League free agents this year and none are qualifying offer candidates: Chris Young, Stephen Drew, and Chris Capuano.