(670 The Score) The Cubs took three out of four from the Cardinals over the weekend at Wrigley Field, showing themselves as a team with the potential to make a run this season.
With one week prior to MLB's Aug. 1 trade deadline, David Haugh of the Mully & Haugh Show believes that the Cubs should hold onto their potential trade chips and try to make a run this season.
"You're the Chicago Cubs," Haugh said. "You're going to need a power-hitting, middle-of-the-order guy in free agency. You got one in uniform now. You're not that far from respectability. I think that if they want to try to thread the needle, the guy to try to get something in return for I could more easily justify is Marcus Stroman.
"I can rationalize that deal at the deadline, even if the Cubs are flirting with respectability. I would have a harder time understanding and digesting the whole Cody Bellinger trade if it happens. What has a better chance of happening? Are your odds better that the prospects you will get in return will develop and become major-league players, or the odds that keeping Cody Bellinger in Chicago will give you a better chance to negotiate with him in free agency because of the impression you're going to make the final two months on a player who likes to be here?
"The Cubs have an opportunity with the schedule. You're playing six more games before the deadline against two bad teams. Take advantage. Make it easy for Jed Hoyer to hold onto both guys. Make a little bit of a run in a division I think is still there for the taking."
The Cubs are 48-51 and have won five of their last six games. They trail the first-place Brewers by 6.5 games in the National League Central. Bellinger is hitting .319 with 14 home runs and 44 RBIs. He's playing a one-year deal in Chicago.
The Cubs begin a two-game series with the White Sox on Tuesday night at Guaranteed Rate Field before traveling to St. Louis on Thursday for a four-game series with the Cardinals.
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