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Last winter, Chicago Cubs fans were absolutely livid at the trade that sent Chicago Cubs pitcher and NL Cy Young runner-up Yu Darvish to San Diego for what seemed like a small bag of airplane pretzels.
Even at the time, most saw the move for what it was: a salary dump. As more time went on, the dots connected themselves and that was wholly confirmed. The Cubs started to falter this summer and, when Joc Pederson was sent packing to Atlanta two weeks prior to the trade deadline, the writing was on the wall: a teardown was coming.