Day 325

Fresh Start_325: Things must be different in Chicago
I’ve seen a lot of weird trades go down, but I didn’t see this one coming. Living in New York and being a Yankee fan, other than the Red Sox, there is a natural rival in the Mets. As much as I don’t really care about the Mets, I don’t like when they do well and the Yankees don’t. I could care less if they co-exist—but if the Mets get the back page and the Yankees don’t it bugs me. So, using that same mentality and comparing that to Chicago, why would you do this Jose Quintana deal if you are the White Sox?

If I was a White Sox fan, one of the last things I would want is for the Cubs to do well, especially at the expense of the White Sox. Quintana is a White Sox guy, why would the Sox front office want to see their guy in the same town do well?

The defending champs have not been living up to expectations at 43-45 and 7.5 games back in the division, they had to make a splash at the deadline. Quintana will help a rotation that needs a ton of help to get back into the playoff race. It will be interesting to see what will happen when Quintana moves uptown to the North end of Chicago.

With a trade like this, you don’t know how the player will react because the city doesn’t change, the media doesn’t change, it just makes it awkward for the player and everyone involved. It is an interesting move for Theo Epstein for getting Quintana while moving more prospects to try to better the Cubs. All prospects where in Single A (both and high) with Eloy Jimenez and Dylan Cease being top prospects. Jimenez is the 8th overall prospect in all of baseball and Cease being 63rd.  I don’t get the trade for Quintana with a price that high, but the move makes sense for both teams.

It also puts to bed the Yankee connection to Quintana, and hopefully the team can make a move for bullpen help and a rental at 1st. If the Cubs win this trade and Jose Quintana becomes a huge success on the North side of Chicago, Theo is a genius and the Cubs might be able to make a run at defending their title.
Sources:(bleacherreport.com, milb.com, mlb.com)

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