Monday, this article by Patrick Mooney appeared in The Athletic.
It’s mostly about the relationship between Willson Contreras and Christopher Morel, and how the Cubs catcher has become a mentor for the Cubs’ rookie sensation.
But this article isn’t about that. It’s about this passage in Mooney’s article that speaks to the future of the Chicago Cubs:
The only remote scenarios in which Contreras doesn’t get traded this summer involve an unpredictable injury at the wrong time or the kind of unreal 17-game winning streak that the Cardinals put together late last season.