Last year I wrote my “not with a bang but a whimper” trade deadline piece to review the Cubs’ (lack of) deals and Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer pulled off a last minute move for Nick Castellanos that had me literally doing a “just kidding, be right back with Castellanos info” tweet about 90 seconds after it posted. This year, I am older and wiser, so I gave myself a cushion between the deadline and this story posting.
That was smart of past me because the Cubs had a lot of last minute deals in their back pocket, specifically adding lefty relievers Andrew Chafin and Josh Osich to join fellow southpaw Kyle Ryan in the bullpen for the well-known players to be named later.