It was easy to look past the Starlin Castro trade to the New York Yankees.
After all, it's been a crazy offseason for the Cubs, with signing three major free agents - including veteran Ben Zobrist, announced right before the Castro trade.
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But Castro's departure deserves more attention than it's gotten, and the former Cubs franchise cornerstone helped his own case with a vulnerable open letter to Chicago for the Players' Tribune.
It's interesting that Castro spoke to Chicago through Derek Jeter's website, just a few years after he was being marketed alongside Jeter on billboards around Chicagoland.