Cubs, Trade Deadline
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The Chicago Cubs have been connected to Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcántara on the trade market for months now, but these rumors are reaching a new peak.
Here is the perfect trade that the Chicago Cubs can make with the Pittsburgh Pirates for one of their top starting pitchers.
The Chicago Cubs have long been connected to a trade for Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcántara. One MLB insider recently added more fuel to the fire.
Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer keeps getting the same message from rival officials as he collects information ahead of the July 31 trade deadline: We’re going to wait and see where we stand in the last couple of days.
In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X, we asked if you’d take a Cubs wild-card berth right now or if you’re holding out for a division title. “Settle for a wild-card spot? Heck, yes, like a drowning man ‘settling’ for some oxygen,” @RonaldVoigt4 commented.
ESPN's Jeff Passan explains why Sandy Alcantara is the perfect MLB trade deadline fit for the Cubs and not Mitch Keller.
The Chicago Cubs may make a few roster decisions in the coming weeks, which could result in some unexpected cuts.
This portion of the MLB calendar is filled with cautionary tales. The Detroit Tigers traded a 20-year-old John Smoltz to the Atlanta Braves for veteran starter Doyle Alexander in August of 1987. Three Augusts later,