Cubs Listed as Potential Fit for Precisely Zero Top-25 Trade Candidates

AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh If recent predictions from ESPN’s top baseball writers carry any weight, it doesn’t look like the Cubs are expected to do much on the trade front. Though Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel listed as many as eight team fits for each of their top 25 trade candidates this offseason, the Cubs did not appear a single time. Not for Tarik Skubal (No. 1), not for Byron Buxton (5), not for Joe Ryan (6), not for Mackenzie Gore (9), and not for any of the others who’ve been linked to the North Side in some manner over the last few days, weeks, and months.

To be fair, most of the players on this list are given less than a 50% chance to be moved during the offseason, and some (Skubal, No.…