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Looking to add needed rotation depth, the Cubs could turn to Jeff Samardzija.
Jeff Samardzija hasn’t thrown a pitch for the Chicago Cubs since 2014. Of course, right before the organization turned the corner in a big way, advancing to the NLCS a year ahead of schedule in 2015, Theo Epstein sent the right-hander and fellow hurler Jason Hammel to the Oakland Athletics in the ill-fated Addison Russell deal.
After he finished the year with the A’s, Oakland sent him back to the Windy City via trade, this time to the Cubs’ crosstown rival, the White Sox.