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Free-agent outfielder Mark Trumbo rejected a one-year, $17.2 million qualifying offer from the Baltimore Orioles on Monday as he seeks a new contract on the open market.The 30-year-old led the majors with 47 home runs in 2016 after the Orioles acquired him in a trade with the Seattle Mariners in December. Trumbo primarily split time as a right fielder and designated hitter for Baltimore, reaching career highs in OPS (.850), RBIs (108) and HRs while earning his second All-Star selection.The Orioles will receive a compensatory draft pick if Trumbo signs with another team.Dan Connolly of BaltimoreBaseball.com first reported Trumbos decision. Discount Sneakers . It was hard for Luck to pull off another comeback, or even get into the end zone, while standing on the sideline. Rivers threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to rookie Keenan Allen and Nick Novak kicked four field goals to give the Chargers a 19-9 victory against the Colts on Monday night. Sneakers Outlet . LOUIS -- Mike Smith is used to facing plenty of shots, so this was nothing new. http://www.cheapsneakers.us/ . Down by seven with 90 seconds left in regulation, thats where they looked comfortable. Cheap Sneakers From China . "I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from. Adidas Sneakers Cheap . It was Kerbers third final of the year after losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in Monterrey in April and to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic in Tokyo two weeks ago. The 10th-ranked German improved her record in finals to 3-5. If Exaggerator wins Saturdays Travers Stakes, the centerpiece of a Saratoga meet that is annually the best race in North America, he will have built a case for this years champion 3-year-old male that will be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome.I suppose if Nyquist won the Breeders Cup Classic and defeated Exaggerator in the process, it might tip the balance for this divisional title back in his favor. But thats a tall order. While a lot can happen between now and the Breeders Cup Classic on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita, the truth is neither Nyquist nor Exaggerator have yet shown they are in the same league as our two top older males -- California Chrome, who was monstrous winning last weeks Pacific Classic, and Frosted, so impressive winning the Met Mile and Whitney in his past two starts.So, short of some Breeders Cup Classic fireworks, a victory Saturday in the Travers by Exaggerator will put Nyquist in an Eclipse Award hole that he wont be able to get out of. A resume of victories in the Travers, Haskell, Preakness and Santa Anita Derby, and a second in the Kentucky Derby, would outshine Nyquists record this year of wins in the Kentucky Derby, Florida Derby and San Vicente, a third in the Preakness, and whatever he might do between now and the Breeders Cup, if anything.Of course, all of this depends on if Exaggerator wins the Travers. And that is a HUGE if. Exaggerator might be by far the most accomplished member of this bulky 14-horse Travers field, but his accomplishments were not fashioned in a vacuum. In fact, the way Exaggerator has compiled his record this year has made him one of the most polarizing horses of 2016, and makes him vulnerable Saturday.Some handicappers, this one included, maintain that Exaggerator has been extremely fortunate over the past 5? months. Exaggerator is a horse who requires a hot and contested pace to make his late run most effective, and he is a horse who relishes a wet racing surface. Exaggerator has been blessed in 2016 to have had both far more often than not.Exaggerator got a scorching early pace and a sloppy track in the Santa Anita Derby, and he won laughing. He got a hot early pace in the Kentucky Derby, and while the official track condition for the Kentucky Derby was fast, there was a big rain storm minutes before the race, leaving stannding water in many spots on the track.ddddddddddddExaggerator finished second, beating 18 opponents.The early pace in the Preakness was unsustainably fast and the track was a sea of slop, and Exaggerator scored going away. And the Haskell was a virtual carbon copy of the Preakness -- too hot an early pace, a sloppy track, and Exaggerator won decisively.But in the Belmont Stakes, Exaggerator saw an early pace that, while reasonably honest for the distance, was by no means fast. Exaggerator also caught a dry racing surface, and he had lost his prior three dry track starts. As the strong 7-5 favorite in the Belmont, Exaggerator surrendered, finished 11th of 13, and was beaten by 14 lengths.On Saturday, Exaggerator will get only half of what he wants. The pace in the Travers should be honest, with the potential of it going even a little faster than that. Barring an unforeseen track bias -- with a couple of isolated exceptions, the main track at Saratoga has for the most part played fairly this year -- the pace will play toward the late kick of Exaggerator, and other closers like him.However, unless the National Weather Services forecast for Saratoga is horribly wrong, Exaggerator will not catch the wet track that was present in all of his big performances this year, and, for that matter, in his Delta Downs Jackpot win last year. And that presents an interesting question.There are those who maintain that Exaggerator is more pace dependent than he is surface dependent, and might even go so far as to say he is not surface dependent at all. And to support their position, they will point to his win on a fast track in last summers Saratoga Special, even if that victory came at the expense of a suspect field.There are others who believe Exaggerator needs both a fast pace and a wet track, perhaps not in equal measure, but both, nonetheless, to produce his best performance in top-level races. I fall into this camp.This storyline is just one of several reasons why this Travers is so interesting. We might get the definitive answer as to whether Exaggerator is indeed a creation of both tremendously favorable pace set ups, and rainy weather, or if he is more than that. ' ' '