The Cubs have acquired Cameron Maybin from the Tigers

The Cubs have been busy folks at the trading deadline, adding two lefthanded relievers, Andrew Chafin from Arizona and Josh Osich from Boston.

Now, they’ve added a spare-part outfielder:

If this deal had been made three or four years ago I might have been excited about it. Cameron Maybin was a first-round pick (10th overall in 2005), once a top prospect and he became a pretty good MLB player who could steal bases — before 2020 he had 183 career steals in 238 attempts, a 77 percent success rate, which is pretty good.

This year? No steals and no attempts, and he played sparingly for the Tigers, hitting .244/.311/.415 (10-for-41) with four doubles and a home run. Last week against the Cubs he went 4-for-7 with three of those doubles — recency bias, perhaps?

There is no official word on this deal, but here’s who the Tigers are getting in return:

Maybin is 33 and a free agent after 2020, so this is yet another short-term acquisition. I would think this likely spells the end of Albert Almora Jr.’s tenure with the Cubs. As always, we await developments.