Shepkowski: Castro Anything But Untouchable

" (CBS) The idea of a potential 100-loss team and actually watching it take place is sufferable.

The 2012 Cubs have been everything most thought they would be, as they’ve scored the fourth fewest runs in the league and have won just four of their last 21 games. As the trade deadline sits now just over 50 days away, your televisions and Twitter timelines will be full of rumors pertaining to who ends up where and for what.

For the Cubs, who are on pace to win 55 games, their most important couple of days of the season outside of the recent MLB Draft are what happens around the trade deadline on July 31. Those are the only two time periods during the season where the team’s minor league systems will be able to grow and the importance of doing so can’t be stressed enough "

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