A less experienced Chris Martin would have been pondering his fate as the calendar hurtled toward the trade deadline.
“I’ve been in this situation before,” the Cubs reliever told the Sun-Times. “I’ve been in clubhouses before when guys have been traded. I’ve been around it a bunch, so no, at this point I’m not thinking about it.”
So has the organization as a whole, just last year, in fact. And last year the dramatic trade deadline sell-off began coming out of the All-Star break. Outfielder Joc Pederson was the first to go, as the Cubs traded away one-third of their Opening Day roster.