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How Cubs are addressing pitcher health with shorter runway to Opening Day in Tokyo

John Antonoff / For the Sun-Times

MESA, Ariz. – Cubs right-hander Jameson Taillon never stopped throwing after the 2024 season ended.

He wasn’t pitching off a mound in October or anything to that extreme. But he kept up catch play – trying something new this offseason, even after shortening his time off the year before to one month.

“I’ve just found the older I get, the more time I take off, the worse I feel,” he said Tuesday. “So it’s good to just keep it moving.