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New Cubs pitcher Shu014dta Imanaga didn’t mention location or history when asked about his priorities in free agency — though he’d been in Chicago, where his agency Octagon is based, since Dec. 26, and he’d researched the organization’s past.
“I wanted to be at a team where I myself, along with the team, can continue to get better and grow,” Imanaga said through interpreter Shingo Murata at his introductory news conference last week.