The trade deadline looms just 10 days away and there has to be any significant player movement as teams jockey for position. While it’s not abnormal by any stretch to see most of the action confined to a very small window just ahead of zero hour, all indications were that the Cubs would try to get ahead of that crunch. They may have been trying for some time now to do exactly that, but various circumstances are conspiring against them.
Chief among those is the Diamondbacks’ reluctance to wave the white flag and start trading off their expiring contracts.