The Yankees won't give out any qualifying offers this season, but what other teams do could impact the Yankees' offseason moves.
The qualifying offer for the 2015-2016 offseason has been set at approximately $15.8 million. A team can choose to give a qualifying offer to any of its players who are set to hit free agency. If the player accepts, then they're locked into a one-year contract with that team for that amount of money. If the player signs with another team, then the former team gets a compensatory selection at the end of the first round of the MLB Draft, which is what happened when the Yankees offered David Robertson the qualifying offer last offseason, and he signed with the White Sox instead.