Cubs free agent target: Dansby Swanson

The Cubs are in the market for a shortstop, as you surely know.

We’ve looked at Carlos Correa and Trea Turner as possible signings by Jed Hoyer & Co. over the last couple of days, so now let’s look at Atlanta shortstop Dansby Swanson.

Swanson is an Atlanta-area native who has played his entire MLB career there, and not by design, but by luck. He was the first overall pick in the 2015 draft by the Diamondbacks (the draft where the Cubs chose Ian Happ) and was traded to the Braves that December, along with Aaron Blair and Ender Inciarte, for Shelby Miller and Gabe Speier.

Wow. Any time you tell me a Cubs trade is bad, just look at that one, almost certainly the worst in D-Backs history and quite…