Bumgarner gets qualifying offer

Madison Bumgarner was among 10 free agents who received $17.8 million qualifying offers from their former teams, a move that likely will decrease demand for the 30-year-old lefthander.

Bumgarner, the 2014 World Series MVP, went 9-9 with a 3.90 ERA over 34 starts this year after two injury-shortened seasons. San Francisco also made a qualifying offer to lefthanded reliever Will Smith.

Six pitchers received the qualifying offers among the 168 free agents, including righthanders Gerrit Cole (Astros), Ste phen Strasburg (Washington), Zack Wheeler (Mets) and Jake Odorizzi (Minnesota). The others given the offers were third basemen Anthony Rendon (Washington) and Josh Donaldson (Atlanta), first baseman Jose Abreu (Chicago White Sox) and outfielder Marcell Ozuna (St. Louis).

On the day before free agents can start negotiating contracts with all teams, Red Sox designated hitter J.D. Martinez decided to stay in Boston instead of becoming a free agent, declining an option that would have voided the last three years and $62.5 million owed as part of the $110 million, fiveyear contract he signed after teams had reported to spring training in 2018.

Milwaukee cut $15 million in payroll for next season, trading righthander Chase Anderson to Toronto for outfield/ first base prospect Chad Spanberger and declining a $7.5 million option on power-hitting first baseman Eric Thames.

A new team signing a player who turns down the qualifying offer would lose at least one pick in next year’s amateur draft as compensation unless a deal is struck after the draft starts in June.

Players have until 5 p.m. EST on Nov. 14 to accept.