I’m going to interrupt the “Cubs free agent target” series briefly to post this trade idea.
A lot of people here, as well as many Cubs fans in general, were not happy when the Cubs traded Dylan Cease and Eloy Jimenez to the White Sox for Jose Quintana in 2017. (There were two other players sent to the Sox, but neither ever played in the majors, the deal was essentially Cease and Jimenez for Quintana.)
Truth be told, if the Cubs had won the World Series with Quintana, the deal would have been just fine. They didn’t, and further, there was absolutely no indication at the time of the trade that Q would be as bad as he was on the North Side.