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Polling Place: Will the Cubs trade catcher Willson Contreras before the Aug. 2 deadline?

Another Cubs selloff? Is that what we’re headed toward?

Not that the Cubs have the same level of assets that they had at the time of their 2021 capitulation, when president Jed Hoyer traded Kris Bryant, Javy Baez and Anthony Rizzo, among others, at the deadline. But they do have Willson Contreras — one of the best catchers in baseball — bound for free agency at season’s end, and his abundant talent would be greatly missed.

In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on Twitter, we asked whether or not the Cubs will deal their best player before the Aug.