With MLB free agency starting on Thursday, the biggest housecleaning items the Chicago Cubs had to take care of were potentially extending qualifying offers to Kyle Tucker and Shota Imanaga. With the offer set at $22.025MM, would be in a position to get draft pick compensation for either player if they were to extend the offer and they sign elsewhere. ESPN's Jeff Passan confirmed that both Imanaga and Tucker received the qualifying offer.
There was never a doubt that the Cubs were going to attach the qualifying offer to Tucker's free agency; the question was with Imanaga.