Did the Cubs make a blunder in giving a qualifying offer to Shota Imanaga?
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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4.2 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:15.6 | Wow, that sounds like somebody really screwed up, is what it sounds like to me. |
| 0:24.5 | I do not know, honestly, the name of the person you just mentioned, which is hypothetical anyway, and of course, we're not talking about any |
| 0:28.3 | specific team. So what would be the possible explanation for qualifying then, thinking that |
| 0:35.1 | he absolutely was not going to take it? |
| 0:43.6 | That's the way that it feels that they were thinking, oh, he'll go get a two-year or three-year deal somewhere else. And he's like, no, I like this money that you guys offer me for this one year. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah. So now they're shackled to him. Yeah. So now they're stuck. Wow, I've seen people get fired for stuff like that. |
| 0:57.5 | I mean, that's a big mistake. |
| 1:00.2 | If that's how it went down. |
| 1:03.1 | Hypothetically. |
| 1:03.9 | Right. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.8 | Hypothetically. |
| 1:07.4 | I've come to the conclusion that we should try and convince Barry Rosner to come on with us once a week just for him to complain that we ask him to come on once a week. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, you know, I mean, what's better? |
| 1:24.5 | The weekly complaint or, you know, the every once or a while complain? |
| 1:31.8 | What does he have to complain about? Ironically, he'd be complaining about coming on the show. |
| 1:36.2 | So he gets to complain and we get to ask him one hypothetical question that is not actually hypothetical. |
| 1:42.3 | What do you guys think about that? Yeah. No, I like it. |
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