Remember when you felt this way all the time? Remember when your baseball team always made you feel that anything was possible and everything was good? You hadn’t forgotten. It wasn’t that long ago. But it certainly got a layer of dust on it this season, waiting to be brought out into the light again. […]
Tag: Jose Quintana
Zack’s Sack: A Wrigleyville Mailbag, Vol 7., ALL-STAR EDITION
Hey now, and welcome to the special All-Star edition of Zack’s Sack! The Cubs made a huge trade this week, and Wade Davis blew the All-Star game for the National League. So, don’t delay, act now—let’s dive into the sack. As always, Twitter replies have been left unedited to capture the immediate nature of the medium, […]
The White Whale Trade: The Search for a Young Cost Controlled Starter Ends
After a frustrating first half of the 2017 season, some people wondered whether or not the 2017 Cubs would be better off as sellers instead of buyers. Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer and Co. quickly put an end to that line of thinking yesterday by trading Eloy Jimenez, Dylan Cease, and two other minor league prospects to […]
After the Slow Start, Is Quintana Recovering?
This might already be a silly question because Jose Quintana may already have recovered from what was a really wonky start to the season. To wit, Quintana had a 1.09 WHIP and 3.21 FIP in his June starts.. You’ll take that for the rest of the season and feel pretty good about it. Still, that […]
Cubs Bolster Rotation, Land Quintana
José Quintana will still be in pinstripes, but he’ll be pitching his home games a few miles north as of this morning. In a blockbuster deal completed before the All-Star break even ended, the Cubs acquired the Colombian left-hander Quintana from the White Sox in exchange for top prospect Eloy Jiménez, top pitching prospect Dylan Cease, […]