Major League Baseball’s trade deadline ended at 5 p.m. Tuesday with the Chicago Cubs and White Sox going in opposite directions. One man’s white flag is another man’s white pocket square. The Cubs went from potential sellers to buyers with a late-July push to the .500 mark, while the Sox unofficially ended their much-heralded window of contention by becoming sellers. We won’t know for a few months whether the Sox’s decision to unload several pitchers and slugger Jake Burger while keeping Tim Anderson and Dylan Cease was a good sign for ’24, or whether the Cubs’ decision to keep Cody Bellinger and Marcus Stroman and acquire Jeimer Candelario while designating Trey Mancini for assignment means they’re playoff worthy in ’23. But after a couple of months of speculation, fueled by two underachieving teams trying to contend in bad divisions, the Cubs and Sox can now go back to their regularly scheduled seasons, already in progress. Cubs President Jed Hoyer can have a restful night of sleep after tossing the turning the last month over which way to go with his up-and-down-and-up team, and Sox general manager Rick Hahn can have that drink and cigar he spoke about last week after dealing Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López to the Los Angeles Angels for two prospects. As Cubs manager David Ross confirmed Monday, Hoyer wound up keeping Bellinger, the presumptive National League Player of the Month for July, who would’ve commanded two or more quality prospects in any deadline deal.
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Tribune News Service, Denver Post
Wed, 08/02/2023 - 6:11am
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