This year’s MLB qualifying offer has been set. Should any Cubs be given one?

Writer Al Yellon analyzes which impending Chicago Cubs free agents should receive a qualifying offer following a 5.1 percent increase over the previous season's figure of $22.025 million. Yellon highlights Seiya Suzuki and Ian Happ as the two primary candidates likely to receive the one-year offer, while examining whether the club should extend one to starting pitcher Matthew Boyd.

Yellon argues that the Cubs must extend an offer to Suzuki and attempt to re-sign him despite reports indicating otherwise. The writer expects Happ to receive and potentially accept an offer, while arguing that Boyd should not receive one given his age and injury-shortened 2026 campaign.