The Chicago Cubs' trade deadline approach has already come into question with Michael Soroka landing on the IL after only two innings pitched, and it takes some nuance out of Jeff Passan's review of what the team did. In his deadline post-mortem for ESPN, Passan did use some fair logic to explain what the Cubs did.
"Could their front offices have ignored those realities and gone for broke? Sure. And none of their fans would have minded. For now. But if they lost in October this year and one of the prospects they moved broke out, not only would the deals be seen as failures, but because they would've been made against the advice of analytical models, they would've been of the you-should've-known variety.