Thursday was the deadline for teams to make qualifying offers to their players who are free agents and the Cubs did so for two such players.

Kyle Tucker was an obvious choice to make the offer of $22.025 million. Just as obvious is the fact that he’ll turn it down and head toward another team in free agency.

Per this MLB Trade Rumors article, the compensation pick the Cubs would get for losing Tucker would fall in between Competitive Balance Round B and the top of the third round. The two Competitive Balance rounds have not yet been set, but last year between the two Competitive Balance rounds there were 15 picks. Thus any such pick granted to the Cubs would wind up somewhere around 75th overall. As always, we await developments.

The situation with Shōta Imanaga is a bit more complicate

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