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Cubs wrap trade deadline with three deals completed, high stakes for the offense the rest of the season

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CINCINNATI – Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer plans to take a photo of the whiteboard in the team’s trade deadline command center before erasing it. He compared it to the chalkboard in a the movie “A Beautiful Mind.’’

He’s begun a collection of those pictures. But instead of mathematical equations, the scrawl maps out the team’s evolving plan for the transaction window – some trades that became reality, others that fell short or never really got off the ground.