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Cubs Trade Rumors: Now Reports Include Victor Caratini or Willson Contreras with Yu Darvish in Padres Deal

Remember way back in the day when the Padres trading for Blake Snell took them out of the running for Yu Darvish and may have also made the Rays more of a player for Willson Contreras? And by “way back in the day,” I literally mean earlier this very day when I wrote about it. Well, gosh, kind of a lot’s changed since then.

First came the reports that the Padres were “deep into talks” with the Cubs to acquire Darvish, which lets us know that San Diego isn’t among the 12 teams on the righty’s limited no-trade list.