Sunday Insider: Short hops

Here come the Cubs The Cubs will make their first visit to Target Field next weekend, when interleague play resumes. It's been an eye-opening year for anyone who expected new team president Theo Epstein and new GM Jed Hoyer to wave a magic want and fix all that ails this franchise. Look for the Cubs to trade Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza to restock a farm system that's as barren on young pitching talent as Minnesota's is.

Killer read Former Star Tribune scribe Steve Aschburner has a new book, "Harmon Killebrew: Ultimate Slugger," which reviews the Hall of Famer's life, in and out of baseball.

Former Twin's sad tale In this week's Sports Illustrated, Tom Verducci shows the other side of the steroid era -- the clean players who didn't make it -- by comparing three players from the Twins' 1994 Class A Fort Myers affiliate with teammate Dan Naulty. A Twins pitcher from 1996 to 1998, Naulty admits steroids helped him reach the majors and nearly destroyed his life. He told Verducci he spent all his baseball earnings on therapy. "I thought I was going to be a millionaire playing baseball," he said, "and I ended up using all the money to heal myself."