Who needs Jose Quintana – especially after watching Eloy Jimenez and Dylan Cease start to come of age with the White Sox?
The better question for the Cub left-hander’s legion of critics might be: Where would the Cubs be without him?
Before the Cubs-lost-the-trade bandwagon starts filling up anew with woulda-coulda grousing at the sight of powerful ex-Cubs prospect Jimenez roaming the Wrigley outfield in a Sox uniform the next two days, consider that 2017 Cubs-Sox trade through the prism of a different pair of names.
Not the heralded Cubs prospects – Jimenez and pitcher Cease – who went to the Sox and now appear to be cornerstones in their rebuilding plans.