Paul Sullivan Will Chicago Cubs ask starters to go longer this year Despite short debut Jameson Taillon says innings are sexy again

CHICAGO — Jameson Taillon has a theory on the evolution of starting pitching. “Innings are making a little bit of a comeback,” the Chicago Cubs starter recently told me. “I think innings are kind of sexy again.” Well, it all depends on your definition of sexy. If Taillon is correct, it means more starters lasting later in games before giving way to the parade of relievers and the pendulum swinging back to the pre-analytics era. But we’re not quite there yet, and neither was Taillon in his Cubs debut Sunday. The team’s most prominent free-agent pitcher since Yu Darvish lasted…