This Cubs trade deadline review from ESPN didn’t last a week

Jul 3, 2025; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer speaks before a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Guardians at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn ImagesThe 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…