As Bob Nightengale reports in USA Today and as Brett on Bleacher Nation follows up, almost everyone on the Cubs roster is expendable, even Castro, a guy who needs to learn how to take a base on balls.
With the additional wild card, especially in the parity-rich NL, the Cubs could make out well this season by trading all kinds of players.
I expect Epstein and Hoyer to dismantle the Chicago Orphans to build anew compared to the method of throwing bad, long-term contracts at the prospect of winning the weak NL Central. Instead, as Epstein says in Nightengale's article, "There might be fewer sellers than usual and a lot more buyers. This has a chance to help use. We need core players."
It should be interesting who they get for Dempster, Garza, et al. Soriano and Marmol need to start getting hot, so they can be traded too.
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