LAS VEGAS — As Major League Baseball’s general manager meetings got underway Tuesday at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said he isn’t closing the door on left-hander Shota Imanaga returning next season.

That could come in the form of Imanaga accepting the Cubs’ $22.025 million qualifying offer or the two sides negotiating a new multi-year deal after the team declined his three-year, $57 million club option . Imanaga, who subsequently turned down his $15 million player option for 2026, has until Nov. 18 to choose whether to take the qualifying offer.

“He was amazing for us as a pitcher, as a teammate, and I don’t want to close that door completely by any stretch,” Hoyer said Tuesday. “But ultimately we didn’t think that the club option

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