As the 22 teams that aren't currently focused on capturing the 2024 World Series title gear up for the coming offseason, many will surely be keeping an eye on the number of high-profile free agent starters set to hit the market this winter with Corbin Burnes, Blake Snell, and Jack Flaherty among the consensus top arms.
While the top free agent arms garnered a combined guarantee of more than $600MM last winter, the results were generally commensurate with that production.
That hurler was Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga, who was generally looked at as a tier below the aforementioned group alongside Eduardo Rodriguez, Lucas Giolito, and others.
The deal maxes out at five years and $80MM, but came with a complex structure that only guaranteed Imanaga $53MM, or roughly two thirds of that $80MM total figure.
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