Since the Cubs are currently seven games under .500 and in last place in the N.L. Central, you’ve probably already read articles about “the inevitable selloff” that note players the team could flip before this year’s trade deadline.
I’m here to tell you that not only do I not think that should happen, I don’t think it will happen.
First, though the Cubs are in last place in the division, they stand just five games out of first place Thursday morning. With 107 games remaining, that’s hardly an insurmountable deficit. All five teams in the N.L. Central are flawed in some way and this could be a division like the 2007 N.