Mark Gonzales: Cade Horton is the key to Cubs overtaking Dodgers
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What are the latest Cubs storylines from spring training?
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That is where we find our friend, longtime baseball reporter Mark Gonzalez. He is at MDGonzalez on X. Mark, how are you? Doing well. Great to hear your voice. How's everything? Oh, same here. It's just nice to catch up. Like, Grody's smiling. I feel like a little bit of the baseball crew is just happening right now. Yeah, and I won't tell you how great the weather is, so we can move on to Cubs and Sox business if you want. Yeah, yeah. It's just like something I've learned to accept. I've been doing this a lot. You can't hurt me with your Arizona weather, Mark Gonzalez. I will not let that happen. I guess a good place to start would be what we saw on the mound yesterday from the Chicago Cubs. Everybody was ultra-concerned about Shota Imanaga at the end of last year.
Didn't think Shota Imanaga was going to be part of the Cubs rotation this year, and unfortunately he did not eliminate any concerns with the three home runs that he gave up in his start yesterday. What did you think about it, Mark? Location was terrible. Velocity was good. The problems he had yesterday were fixable, so He's going to have a few more starts down here. You've got to think that he's got to be at the back end of the rotation just based on the way the rotation is sculpted, what guys like Cade Horton did last year. Certainly Shota knows he's got to pitch better and pitch more consistent, more stronger, because he saw where he faded toward the end last year. He wasn't the only one that did so, but he knows what's at stake because the hope is –
that Steele will be ready at some point, you know, late May, early June, and you have the reinforcements. So Shota's got a lot to prove, but I think there's time. And I think the case with location, he can fix that in a hurry. Real quick follow-up on that, because you mentioned what's at stake, and of course it makes sense. Justin Steele comes back, maybe he replaces Shota in the starting rotation. I think that's what you're saying. Is there any chance that Shota Imanaga is out of the starting rotation even before Justin Steele comes back, considering last year, considering the start to this year as well? He would have to really slip in a hurry. I think given his track record, I think they'd give him a leash.
You can also manipulate the rotation with off days and such. So I think he'll get a decent leash anyway. Whether it's two months, we'll see. But I think he's to the point where he'll get a chance. He'll get a fair chance. I don't think there'll be a quick hook with him, but you want results. No, you do, Mark. And one of the things I noticed when you were talking about the home runs and the location of the ball, that's the first thing I'm looking at, right?
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