Shu014dta Imanaga remains the Cubs’ biggest addition of the offseason by a wide margin, at least from a player perspective, which puts as much pressure on him as it does the front office. Not that he should feel the need to secure himself as the No. 2 starter, mind you, it’s just that making so few external improvements to this point means pretty much every move has to work out well.
One of the best little wrinkles of the Imanaga saga is that he had actually been staying in Chicago throughout his posting period and no one knew about it until after he signed.