The 4 p.m. deadline on Nov. 18 for players to accept the $22.025 million qualifying offer has officially passed, with four players agreeing to it, as well as nine who chose to decline it. While the Padres didn’t extend the qualifying offer to anyone set to hit the open market, some of their top targets accepted theirs.
This checkpoint in the offseason most definitely threw off the Padres’ plans in free agency, as a pair of targets this winter chose to accept the one-year offer, those two being Shota Imanaga and Gleyber Torres.
Padres’ list of realistic upgrades narrows after wave of accepted qualifying offers
Let’s start off with Imanaga, who appeared on the Padres’ radar after he declined his player option that was triggered by Chicago’s initial decision.