The Chicago Cubs have been connected to Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcántara on the trade market for months now, but these rumors are reaching a new peak.

A recent trade idea lands the Chicago Cubs a two-time World Series champion as an under-the-radar starting pitching addition.

Here is the perfect trade that the Chicago Cubs can make with the Pittsburgh Pirates for one of their top starting pitchers.

In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X, we asked if you’d take a Cubs wild-card berth right now or if you’re holding out for a division title. “Settle for a wild-card spot? Heck, yes, like a drowning man ‘settling’ for some oxygen,” @RonaldVoigt4 commented.

The Chicago Cubs took Pete Crow-Armstrong from the New York Mets. We handed them a future Gold Glover with wheels and swagger for two months of Javier Báez’s he

Cubs trade top prospects to Diamondbacks for Eugenio Suárez, adding power and experience to Chicago’s lineup in a pivotal deadline deal.

A notable MLB insider claims he is under the impression the Chicago Cubs are willing to sell off the cream of their minor league crop to make a blockbuster trade before this month’s MLB trade deadline.

Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer keeps getting the same message from rival officials as he collects information ahead of the July 31 trade deadline: We’re going to wait and see where we stand in the last couple of days.