If there’s anything the Cubs like almost as much as delaying IL decisions, it’s trading with the Mets for guys named Pete. They managed to pry loose their current top prospect, Pete Crow-Armstrong, at the 2021 deadline and were apparently loaded for bear this time around. Though nothing got particularly close, Ken Rosenthal reported recently that Jed Hoyer kicked the tires on slugging first baseman Pete Alonso.
The Cubs were really just mentioned in passing as being among the teams interested in Alonso, the most prominent of which was the Brewers.