Paul Sullivan: Like the weather in Chicago, the Cubs’ ‘buy or sell’ mode can change by the minute
CHICAGO — As one of baseball’s most prominent in-between teams, the sub-.500 Chicago Cubs have teetered between being buyers and sellers as the Aug. 1 trade deadline nears.
With a team that alternates between dominant stretches and periods during which they look like they’ll never win again, Cubs President Jed Hoyer faces enormous pressure deciding which way to go.
Buy? Sell? Stand pat?
Hoyer has been asked the same question for more than a month now.
“I don’t want this to be a day-to-day assessment-type thing,” Hoyer said Friday. “It’s baseball.”
Hoyer is absolutely correct. Obviously, a better way
