Chicago Cubs will ‘focus on the pitching staff’ at trade deadline, Jed Hoyer says — even as arms near returns

Will the Chicago Cubs be buyers or sellers at the Aug. 3 trade deadline? Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said Friday that the next two weeks will give his club a clearer picture of the landscape both in Chicago and across the league. Right now, there’s just too much uncertainty about which teams are going to be selling. “I just think that we’ve got to wait, we’ve got to get ...