The Red Sox extended a $21 million qualifying offer to veteran pitcher Nick Pivetta on Monday, unexpectedly forgoing a QO for Tyler O’Neill.

Is Nick Pivetta worth $21 million? John Tomase sheds light on the Red Sox's decision to extend a qualifying offer to their 31-year-old pitcher.

I thought about that late Monday afternoon when it was reported that the Sox were’t going to give a qualifying offer to O’Neill — I thought all along that such a strategy had been a distinct longshot — but were instead giving one to Nick Pivetta ...