The Chicago Cubs had high ambitions for the MLB trade deadline, hoping to acquire a controllable ace, but the asking prices seemed to steer the team away from adding one. Various reports seem to confirm the Cubs were asked to give up Cade Horton as part of a potential trade, and that Jed Hoyer confirmed as much while speaking with reporters earlier this week.
“He came up in some trade discussions,” Hoyer said. “To trade a guy (like) him with his amount of control to get a guy with less control, it didn’t make a lot of sense, along with a bunch of other pieces as well.