The Cubs could use another assist from Yu Darvish and a couple of helpers from Shu014dta Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki. Now that Ru014dki Sasaki is being posted, Tommy Hottovy and Jed Hoyer might want to enlist the services of Darvish once again. The former Cub has a warm relationship with Chicago’s front office and pitching coach and was a willing source of information in conversations with Hottovy when the Cubs stepped up their efforts to sign Imanaga. If only it were that easy.
“He’s a great salesman for our organization,” Hottovy said then.