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This wasn’t the future the Cubs, White Sox pictured during 2021 crosstown trades

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Cubs third baseman Nick Madrigal was targeting the Crosstown Classic this week to return from the injured list, but he was scratched from a rehab game with Triple-A Iowa on Sunday. File photo.

The Cubs and White Sox’ three-player trade at the 2021 trade deadline seemed like a defining moment as crosstown rivals drifted past each other, headed in opposite directions.

Merely two years later, both teams are under .500. Any sliver of hope of adding at the deadline belongs to the Cubs. And it appears unlikely that any of the players involved in that 2021 trade will appear in the Classic at Guaranteed Rate Field Tuesday and Wednesday.