In the Best of the Cubs this week, Mike Mulligan and Brad Biggs discussed what the club's starting rotation will look like when when the 2026 regular season gets started and pondered how much utilityman Matt Shaw will play; Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed how trade talks recently played out between the Cubs and Red Sox; and Leila Rahimi and Marshall Harris discussed what the expectations are for Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga after he had a disappointing end to the 2025 season.