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Cubs could create army of lefty aces with shocking deadline blockbuster

In need of starting pitching help at the trade deadline, could the Cubs go after one of the best pitchers in baseball?

Chicago Cubs pitchers Matthew Boyd and Shota Imanaga converse during the MLB Tokyo Series. | Matt Dirksen/GettyImages

That triumvirate may not have the name brand recognition of some of the other collections of aces out there — it's pretty freaking hard to compete with Roki Sasaki, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani, after all — but it's a group that belongs among MLB's best, especially following Boyd's All-Star emergence this season.