The 2025-26 MLB offseason is only just beginning, but there's already a long list of potential candidates to fill the Boston Red Sox's roster holes. A surprise option to bolster their rotation became available on November 4.
Shota Imanaga has become a free agent, first reported by Jesse Rogers of ESPN. The Chicago Cubs declined a conditional club option that would've added a fifth year to the lefty's four-year, $53 million deal. The move gave Imanaga a $15 million player option for 2026, which he declined.
Imanaga's two seasons with the Cubs were his first in MLB.