Mark Grote

even if it was a little bit low.

Shota Imanaga finished 2025 by allowing a home run in each of his final nine regular season starts, adding up to 15 home runs.

In the postseason, he allowed three home runs in six and two-thirds across the two games that they allowed him to pitch in.

So in a season in which most people are picking the Cubs to –

very least win the division.

This is something that needs to be heavily monitored and something that is allowed to be concerned about even after just one start in the month of March.

That's my thing.

Every single year that I have covered this team, I get a lot of questions that I either had before the season began reaffirmed as questions or we find some answers.

And that starts on opening day.

And

Yeah, there's a lot of selective memory that goes on with listeners and talk about, well, it's early or, you know, oh, you guys are so negative.

No, we talk about every single game, every one of them.

So people lie because that's what happens in 2025.

It's okay to not like a show.

It's not okay to need to lie about it.

Like, you can have your opinion.

It's going to be okay.

You don't need to lie to back it up.

But when it comes to this, don't lie to yourselves either.

Understand that if people are picking up where they left off, Shorty Minaga gives up that three-run jack.