No one can say there aren’t still areas to clean up, but there’s one thing Caleb Williams already has in spades: clutchness. Just get that guy the ball with an opportunity to do something big in the final 5 minutes, and he will do it.
The GM Meetings begin today in Las Vegas, and, despite the name, it’s really a gathering of all the top baseball executives (and there are typically organizational meetings and owners meetings, too). You don’t necessarily see a lot of major transaction activity this week, but you do typically see some early rumors spilling out, as well as some more modest movement. Among the topics for the week: feeling out whether Shōta Imanaga’s market will justify him spurning the Qualifying Offer, or whether he’s best served accepting the one-year, $22 million offer by the November 18 deadline. That’s far from the only matter on the Cubs’ offseason agenda, but how they’ll proceed could turn significantly on whether Imanaga is coming back or not. Also coming tonight: the NL Rookie of the Year. Will Cade Horton win? Jameson Taillon took a little time off, and he’s right back at it:And just like that, back to work ? Really excited to get after it and attack a few weaknesses and come back better than ever!! Going to be a great 2026 for the Cubbies! pic.twitter.com/tIc6eL5FaN
— Jameson Taillon (@JTaillon50) November 10, 2025 Taillon is coming off his worst FIP year by far with the Cubs, so why doesn’t it feel like he had a rough season? Well, the 3.68 ERA obviously is a big reason (11% better than league average), but his dominance down the stretch is probably the bigger one: 1.57 ERA and 3.11 FIP over his final 6 starts, and then also two really strong postseason starts. He was money when the Cubs needed him most. Also: most of his FIP issues were tied to the home run rate, which ballooned in large part because of the two-game stretch in May when he allowed 7(!) homers over 10.0 innings. That still counts, obviously, but he had a 3.15 ERA the rest of the way, with a reasonable 1.24 HR/9. I still feel very good about having Taillon in the rotation for another year. Something to add to yesterday’s discussion of Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami. None of this was unknown, but the visual is certainly striking:Munetaka Murakami’s 2025 NPB Percentiles (min. 100 PA) pic.twitter.com/gtjAclsCxW
— Yakyu Cosmopolitan (@yakyucosmo) November 9, 2025 Spending huge money on Murakami this offseason is a bet on at least one of two things: (1) at 25 and coming over to a new environment, he can dramatically improve his ability to make useful contact against better pitches; and/or (2) he can keep doing enough damage against mistakes and lesser offerings to continue being an overall valuable offensive player, despite what could be league-leading strikeout/whiff figures. By contrast, here’s Kazuma Okamoto:Kazuma Okamoto's 2025 NPB Percentiles (min. 100 PA) pic.twitter.com/0gXKbhpW26
— Yakyu Cosmopolitan (@yakyucosmo) November 10, 2025 No no-hitters in baseball for the first time in 20 years. I tend to think that’s more of a flukey thing than something specific about 2025 when you’re spreading it across so many games, but it’s fair to wonder whether the shift rules (2023) would necessarily make no-hitters a little more difficult to come by. Hard to say with a sample size of three seasons, two of which featured four no-hitters. You watch the first few seconds and you’re like “pfft, what’s the big whoop?” and then suddenly WTF:2025 PitchingNinja Craziest Mechanics Award ??Winner: Ethan Getting (Wayne State) pic.twitter.com/hqw44m8hlT
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) November 9, 2025 I chuckled:Fernando Tatis Jr. deserved the Rawlings Platinum Glove over Pete Crow-Armstrong and Patrick Bailey. Cubs and Giants fans just don’t get it, look at the numbers:Fernando Tatis HRs robbed at home: 4Pete Crow-Armstrong HRs Robbed at home: 0Patrick Bailey TOTAL home robberies:… t.co/OCSE21xfnb
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