Trade deadline? What trade deadline?
Cubs shortstop Javy Baez doesn’t know about any stinking trade deadline.
“To be honest, I don’t know what to tell you about this trade deadline,” he said Monday night after the team’s unthinkable losing streak hit the double-digit mark at 10. “I’m really not paying attention to it. If anything happened, it would be a surprise to me.”
A surprise would be the Cubs — seemingly past the point of no return in their free-fall out of the playoff picture — getting to July 30 without throwing in the towel.
An even bigger surprise would be a pending free agent hoping for a nine-figure contract not having his future — short- and long-term — on his mind as his team craters with the longest Cubs losing streak since the 101-loss 2012 squad dropped 12 straight.