Should Cubs trade Bryant or Baez — or keep both and potentially sacrifice the future?
CHICAGO - In a perfect world, the Cubs would be on a streak of postseason appearances to rival the Dodgers' current run of seven in a row while producing waves of homegrown impact players to help balance the payroll.
But even before the Cubs failed to reach the playoffs this fall for the first time since 2014, cracks began to surface.
Several of the young players who helped lead the franchise to the 2016 World Series title failed
