Shōta Imanaga
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Oct 26, 2026
Lindsay CrosbyHOST
Somebody will come back and be the number three.
Lindsay CrosbyHOST
Are you cool with that? Do you want us just to go out and get a portfolio? If it's the portfolio, who do you want? Do you want Casey Mize and Michael King? Do you want Shota Imanaga, who whiff rate of 30%, by the way? Whew.
Lindsay CrosbyHOST
Stuff Plus was 83.
Lindsay CrosbyHOST
Strikeout rate was below 25%.
Mark SimonGUEST
And the Fielding Bible...
Jeff HysenHOST
winner was Beebe, you would have given it to Shota Imanaga, right?
Mark SimonGUEST
Yeah, Shota Imanaga.
Mark SimonGUEST
There was, like, almost no difference between them.
Mark SimonGUEST
I think the reason that I, in the Fielding Bible Awards, that I voted for Shota Imanaga over McLean was that there were, like, that Imanaga had no errors.
Mark SimonGUEST
He had nothing that was even, like, close to an error.
Mark SimonGUEST
And he had more pick-offs than McLean by, like, one or two.
Joe NogaHOST
He also won the honor as the top defensive pitcher in baseball.
Joe NogaHOST
The only Guardians pitcher to ever win the award, he finished with five defensive runs saved, tied for second among all pitchers, and beat out Shota Imanaga by one point in the voting, 58-57.
Joe NogaHOST
Um, uh, you know, also, uh, Stephen Kwan, just a note is, uh, he finished second in the multi-position category behind, uh, Zach McKinstry.
Joe NogaHOST
Uh, so, you know, we talked about how, uh, Kwan moving between left field and center field, it was probably going to cost him a gold glove.
Avery ChenierHOST
Why do I forget his name?
Johnny GiuntaHOST
Justin Steele?
Avery ChenierHOST
No, no, no.
Avery ChenierHOST
The Japanese pitcher.
Alex PattHOST
And Ben Brown was the only guy on the staff that looked dominant this year until he got hurt.
Alex PattHOST
Yeah, Shota Imanaga pitched overall well, but you wouldn't call it dominant.
Alex PattHOST
It was efficient, even though he still gave up a ton of home runs, and he had a little bit of a rough patch in the middle of the season, but overall, he pitched well, but he wasn't dominant.
Alex PattHOST
I mean, Matthew Boyd was up and down.
Ryan GarciaHOST
Not even close.
Ryan GarciaHOST
I'm not sure that he's going to be as coveted as Shota Imanaga or Kodai Senga even.
Ryan GarciaHOST
Maybe he is.
Ryan GarciaHOST
It depends on kind of how teams interact with this market and how teams interact with this very unique pitching profile.
Brendan MillerHOST
That is a lot of value to replace amidst a rotation that needs to be completely redone.
Brendan MillerHOST
because of injuries, because of also looming free agents such as Shota, Imanaga, and Boyd, and having the injuries, the steel change, how you project next season.
Brendan MillerHOST
This is a problem.
Brendan MillerHOST
And it's part of why I sometimes catch myself being pessimistic, because there's so many ways the Cubs need to improve.
17 MINS LATER
Brendan MillerHOST
So we got a question from Cubby Mike at Cubby Mike 76, who asked, the thing I'm most curious about is how the Cubs will approach Japanese players for next season.
Brendan MillerHOST
I am very curious about that as well.
Brendan MillerHOST
So Shota Imanaga asks, free agent, say Suzuki, free agent.
Brendan MillerHOST
In part, why the Cubs were able to play in Japan in 2025 to start a season was you had those two superstars in Japan versus, as we all know, Shohei and the Dodgers and their cast of Japanese studs as well.
Dan BernsteinHOST
For every individual, every one of those cuts... hurts over again.
Dan BernsteinHOST
The Jameson Tyone games and some of the Shota Imanaga games, the Jacob Webb ends of games that we went through, they were killed by opposing home runs because they couldn't field them.
Matt AbbatacolaHOST
You know, and on the Rafaela and Pete Crowe thing, I just want to say real quick, because as a meatball Cubs fan, I'm sitting here going, well, that's bullshit.
Matt AbbatacolaHOST
How does that work that way? And I know a lot of people may listen to this and feel the same way and be like, oh, that's not fair.
Cody StavenhagenHOST
So although he's older, there are traits I like.
Cody StavenhagenHOST
If we're talking about getting him one year I'm not too worried about what that salary number is now in terms of what it would take to get him I probably would hold a pretty high bar just because he is older it is a one-year thing we're talking about as much as I don't like this free agent class there are a few kind of mid-tier starting pitchers Shota Imanaga you know maybe Foster Griffin Michael King could opt out I think Trevor Rogers is going to be on the market.
Cody StavenhagenHOST
Kevin Gossman, old friend Casey Mize.
Cody StavenhagenHOST
Can he bounce back? Like Chris Povich is out there.
Ben FaddenHOST
The big guys, it's Skubal who's not coming.
Ben FaddenHOST
It's Shota Imanaga maybe, Kevin Gossman.
Ben FaddenHOST
Everybody else has question marks.
Ben FaddenHOST
I mean, Chris Bassett you could point to, but there's question marks on everybody.
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