Credit where it’s due — I “borrowed” this idea from Mark Zuckerman of MASN Sports, who wrote of all the Nationals players whose careers ended after their time in D.C. There were 126 of them, all told, since the Nats moved from Montreal to Washington in 2005.
So I thought I’d look up all the Cubs players who didn’t play again in the big leagues after they were Cubs, limiting my search to the years 2010-19. (Obviously, you can’t yet include 2020, since it’s still possible for all those players to have more big-league time.