Here is the perfect trade offer that the Chicago Cubs should offer the Minnesota Twins for starting pitcher Joe Ryan.

The Chicago Cubs haven't been to the playoffs in a full season since 2018 and that was just one game, as they lost the Wild Card back when it was a one-and-done. They're coming off back-to-back 83-win seasons.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs may find all these questions about the trade deadline to be repetitive. The alternative angle, though, would be focusing on the club’s middling play recently. Between the blowout losses, sloppy defense and creaky pitching staff, help should be on the way.

A fan wearing an “MVPCA” shirt, in a nod to Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong, reached over the railing and let the ball slip through his waving arms. It hit the railing over the yellow stripe at the top of the wall, out of Tauchman’s reach, for the first run of the game.

This round of the City Series arrives as the July 31 trade deadline nears. The Cubs are in a position to buy while the White Sox will be looking to sell.

The Chicago Cubs line up as one of the prospective buyers, especially for pitching, as baseball’s July 31 trade deadline approaches.

The New York Yankees pulled themselves out of the running for Eugenio Suárez, and now Jon Heyman believes the Chicago Cubs and Seattle Mariners are the leaders.

MLB insider Buster Olney of ESPN reports that the Chicago Cubs are one of many teams which have had trade talks about San Diego Padres starter Dylan Cease.