The players have until Dec. 19 to accept the club's arbitration offer.

If a player rejects an arbitration offer, his club, unlike previous years, will not lose rights to him.

He became a free agent following the season, rejecting the A's arbitration offer.

It is within Clemens's right to accept the arbitration offer and probably collect well more than $10 million by doing so.

The deadline for free agents to accept arbitration offers is Monday.

That situation will face any free agent who rejects his club's arbitration offer.

A free agent has until Dec. 19 to accept the arbitration offer.

This time around, only eight players rejected arbitration offers, and three of them already have signed.

The decisions were announced just after the midnight deadline for arbitration offers.

Free agents who accepted arbitration offers from their 1987 teams are considered signed players for 1988.