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Inside The Cubs’ Shota Imanaga Decision And A 2026 Rotation Blueprint
A World Series split is the perfect mirror for what the Cubs need next: a rotation that hunts outs, not headlines, and a front office brave enough to buy flexibility instead of false certainty. We dig into the big call around Shota Imanaga’s contract—three years at $57M with a no-trade if exercised versus a leaner path that prefers a $15M pivot year—then lay out how that decision ripples through the entire 2025 build. The question isn’t whether Shota is good; it’s whether the league adjusted to his fastball shape or health blunted the deception, and how much risk the Cubs should carry when…
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