Davis, Wieters, Chen receive qualifying offers from Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles extended $15.8-million qualifying offers to Chris Davis, Matt Wieters, and Wei-Yin Chen on Friday, guaranteeing themselves draft-pick compensation should any of those players sign elsewhere as free agents.

Each player has one week to mull over the one-year deal, but no player has ever accepted a qualifying offer. If all three players sign elsewhere this winter, the Orioles will receive three compensatory picks between the first and second rounds of the 2016 draft. Any team that signs a qualified free agent, meanwhile, will forfeit its top unprotected pick in next year's amateur draft.

After stumbling through a rough 2014 campaign, Davis rebounded nicely this season, leading the majors with 47 homers (and a 31 percent strikeout rate) while posting a .923 OPS over 160 games. Since 2013, no player has hit more home runs than Davis, who turns 30 in March.

Wieters, the fifth overall pick in the 2007 draft, was limited to 75 games this season after undergoing Tommy John surgery last May. The 29-year-old hit .267/.319/.422 (100 OPS+) with eight homers in 2015, but only caught on consecutive days a total of four times.

Chen, finally, enjoyed the finest season of his MLB career in 2015, posting a career-best 3.34 ERA (124 ERA+) with a 3.73 strikeout-to-walk ratio over 191 1/3 innings, another career-high.