The Chicago Cubs' trade deadline performance in 2025 certainly played a part in their NLDS demise against the Milwaukee Brewers, as the team failed to add the starting pitcher (and offensive reinforcement) that it desperately needed ahead of October.
Andrew Kittredge was solid as a late-inning reliever, and Willi Castro was, in theory, a perfect fit as a utility man, but between Michael Soroka's injury-fueled tenure and Taylor Rogers' lack of impact, there was just wasn't much reason to believe in the Cubs more after the deadline than there was before it.
In both real time and after the fact, Cubs fans lamented the front office's choices last July.