Who are the Cubs' primary trade targets? And who can Cubs offer in return?

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The non-waiver trade deadline is 3 p.m . Tuesday and Cubs President Theo Epstein said he believes the Cubs will make a deal. Here are some questions and answers regarding their needs and the trading landscape. How did the Cubs get to this point with their pitching needs? The starting pitchers haven’t pitched deep into games with any regularity, thus causing stress on a bullpen that has been effective and resilient despite injuries to valuable late-inning specialists such as Brandon Morrow and Carl Edwards Jr. Yu Darvish’s injury has stretched the depth further. Left-hander reliever Mike Montgomery had to be plugged into the starting rotation and thus left the bullpen without an experienced long

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