Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 3, 2025
Cubs have a starting pitching problem. Will Jameson Taillon be part of the solution?
Cubs pitcher Jameson Taillon allowed five runs in four innings and lost to the Brewers on June 19, 2025, in Chicago.Griffin Quinn/Getty
The contending Cubs need to add some serious starting pitching. You know it. The baseball world knows it. Every current member of the team’s rotation must, on some level, know it, too.
“It’s kind of touchy to talk about it, though,” right-hander Jameson Taillon said Wednesday before the Cubs took on the Guardians at Wrigley Field. “You don’t want to be praying you get someone and then someone on your team reads that and they’re like, ‘Well, that guy might replace me.’ That stuff can be a little weird.”