This season, the Chicago Cubs, for the first time in a long time, feel like they are finally coming together out of a state of mediocrity and into a status of l

The Chicago Cubs are strongly interested in Minnesota Twins relievers Griffin Jax and Jhoan Duran ahead of the MLB trade deadline.

With a 55-38 record and a two-game lead in the National League Central, the Cubs have easily cleared the first threshold.

To acquire Javier Baez and swingman Trevor Williams from the Chicago Cubs in 2021, the Mets parted with Pete Crow-Armstrong, then a 19-year-old outfield prospect.

In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X, we asked if you’d take a Cubs wild-card berth right now or if you’re holding out for a division title. “Settle for a wild-card spot? Heck, yes, like a drowning man ‘settling’ for some oxygen,” @RonaldVoigt4 commented.

A notable MLB insider claims he is under the impression the Chicago Cubs are willing to sell off the cream of their minor league crop to make a blockbuster trade before this month’s MLB trade deadline.

Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer keeps getting the same message from rival officials as he collects information ahead of the July 31 trade deadline: We’re going to wait and see where we stand in the last couple of days.

The Chicago Cubs are going to be adding starting pitching at the trade deadline, and they are looking at a variety of options. There will be a lot of options for the Cubs to choose from, and Tim Britton,