2017 Team Options

[Dodgers GM]

Teams will post here whether they accept or decline their team options for players with an option for 2017. A decision on team options is due by the start of free agency (some unnamed date in January/February once ESPN is set up for the new year). The team options are as follows:

Baltimore:
Chris Carter
Matt Holliday
Wellington Castillo

Boston:
Mark Trumbo
Josh Reddick
Luke Gregerson
Tyler Thornburg
Hernan Perez
Yoenis Cespedes

Chicago White Sox:
Sergio Romo
Kevin Kiermaier

Kansas City:
Elvis Andrus
Zach Britton

New York:
Jed Lowrie
Clay Buchholz
Jaime Garcia

Seattle:
J.D. Martinez

Texas:
Carlos Santana
Jonathon Niese
David Robertson
Brandon Crawford


Toronto:
Clayton Kershaw
Tanner Roark
Jace Peterson

Arizona:
Brock Holt
Derek Holland

Cincinnati:
Brad Boxberger
Jonathan Papelbon
Matt Kemp

Chicago Cubs:
Salvador Perez
Dexter Fowler
Kenley Jansen
Nori Aoki

Los Angeles:
Ryan Zimmerman
Brian Dozier
Victor Martinez
Matt Moore
Santiago Casilla
Adam Lind

Milwaukee:
Joey Votto
Jay Bruce
Jacob DeGrom
Tyler Clippard
Matt Duffy

Pittsburgh:
Jonathan Lucroy
Zack Cosart
Miguel Cabrera
Melky Cabrera
Fernando Rodney

St. Louis:
Wade Davis
Brian McCann
Max Scherzer
Jedd Gyorko
Jason Hammel
Josh Tomlin
Carter Capps

Washington:
Ian Desmond
Hunter Pence
Gio Gonzalez

[Deleted]

Royals accept 2017 player options for Zach Britton and Elvis Andrus.

[Cubs]

Cubs accept 2017 options for Perez, Fowler, Jansen.
Cubs decline 2017 option for Aoki.

[Deleted]

Just a reminder to everyone:

If you decline an option, you owe 1/4 of the option salary.

[Dodgers GM]

Yep, gotta pay 1/4 of Aoki's 3.8M - it's included in the "Player Releases" tab

[Red Sox GM]

Texas Dclines Option on J. Niese
Accept option On Carlos Santana
Accept Option on Robertson

[Deleted]

Just a reminder to everyone:

If you decline an option, you owe 1/4 of the option salary.

CLARIFICATION:

There are a handful of original contracts out there that contain options. Those will become rarer and rarer as we go on as only the original contracts were based on real contracts. but for those contracts the actual real life options are to be paid.

Jonathan Niese for instance from Cots:

5 years/$25.5195M (2012-16), plus 2017-18 club options
signed extension with NY Mets 4/4/12
$0.25M signing bonus
12:$0.7695M, 13:$3M, 14:$5M, 15:$7M, 16:$9M, 17:$10M club option ($0.5M buyout), 18:$11M club option ($0.5M buyout)


So he is only subject to a 0.5M buyout. Not the full 1/4 salary.


Sorry this is so complicated. Just how the league was set up.

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Orioles accept the option for Carter and Castillo, and decline Holliday

[rms1002-Astros GM]

Seattle accept option on J.D. Martinez

[Deleted]

red sox decline cespedes option.