The Cubs are placing southpaw Jose Quintana on the 10-day injured with left lat inflammation, Jesse Rogers of ESPN.com reports. They recalled righty Jason Adam to take Quintana’s place on their roster, per Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic.
This continues a year to forget for Quintana, who had to undergo left thumb surgery at the beginning of July and was unable to debut until Aug. 25. Quintana has since thrown six innings of four-run ball with nine strikeouts and two walks over a pair of relief appearances. He’ll now rejoin righty Tyler Chatwood as Cubs starting options on the injured list. The NL Central leaders still have Cy Young contender Yu Darvish, Kyle Hendricks, Jon Lester and Alec Mills around to fill rotation spots, but there’s nobody with a track record rivaling Quintana’s to take his position, and the Cubs can’t look for established outside help now that the trade deadline has passed. For now, it seems the Cubs will turn to righty Adbert Alzolay, who has three MLB starts on his resume.
Quintana is only several weeks from reaching the free-agent market, so it’s far from ideal that he’ll shop his services around the majors off an injury-ruined season. The 31-year-old, previously with the White Sox, has typically been quite durable since his career began in 2012. In fact, from 2013-19, he made 30-plus starts every season and logged 171-plus innings in each of those campaigns.
I am thinking we have seen the last of Quintana
Weird, I’ve never heard of someone being hurt with lat inflammation.
Has this guy lived up to the hype? White Sox easily won this trade. White Sox have really done a great job with several trades.
Thanks for the compliment. I have to wholeheartedly agree with ya!
Didn’t know you had anything to do with it, chitown311.
Are you Rick Hahn? Nice!
Eloy and Cease combined career bWAR: 2.2.
Quintana bWAR with the a Cubs: 4.4.
White Sox haven’t won this trade yet.
@bronyaur
The sound you now hear is the rest of the Cubs fan base cringing at your post. I showed your post to a few of my friends who are die-hard Cub fans. They just shook their heads.
But here is where I can help you out. After they finished shaking their heads at your ridiculous post, they reminded me of the potential disparity between Shields tenure with the Sox and Tatis in regards to bWAR. That immediately reduced my laughter to silence. You might want to stick with that route from here on out. I’m glad I could help.
It will certainly end up coming out in the Sox favor, but hindsight is 20/20. Jimenez is abhorrent in the OF and the Cubs weren’t about to employ an OF that had Schwarber and Jimenez patrolling the corners. Nobody foresaw the DH being implemented in the NL. He’d be a great asset for that position now, but at the time of the trade, it wasn’t a bad thought. Not to mention at the time of the trade, Quintana was one of the most valuable pitchers in the MLB. He had one of the highest pitcher WARs and the among the most quality starts over the past 3-4 seasons. He hasn’t lived up to that same potential, but he hasn’t been drastically awful either.
Ry—you are right it’s all hindsight. Pretty sure the Cubs won the Rizzo trade, the Arietta/Strop trade, the Fowler trade, the Hendricks trade, actually the Russell trade, the Montgomery trade…..
…..pretty sure the Red Sox are happy they won the Sale trade; the Nats are happy they-won the Eaton deal…. every player I mentioned above has a World Series ring with the team they were traded to.
…….at the point of the trade Jimenez and Cease had no immediate impact to the Cubs chances. If you have the ability to punt eight years of contention it’s a perfectly valid point that the Sox “won” or “will win” the trade with the Cubs.
83Sox, you can sleep well at night knowing that whatever you or your meatball friends might think is of monumental indifference to me and the to the overwhelming majority of humans on earth.
Exactly. Folks that don’t understand net present value and discounting if future value streams are the folks that run up credit card balances at 28% per annum.
It is likely but there is no guarantee that Cease and Jiminez will ever actually turn out to be 2+ WAR players. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the White Sox will turn out to be a playoff team for a period of time that matches the remainder of the controlled seasons of those two guys. MLB history is loaded with teams who were loaded with kids and couldn’t miss. But did.
Also, the entire idea of every trade has a winner and a loser is inherently dumb.
Different commodities can provide different utilities to different actors. A successful trade is a win win. In this case, the Cubs did not highly value two players who had zero chance to contribute to their winning in a defined competitive window. And to date, they have provided half of the contribution to winning that Q has to the Cubs.
The Sox knew that they would suck for a couple of years, and the value of marginal wins during this time was negligible. They determined that they would be better off by giving up more value now on the prospect of more value later. Win- win.
There is always a winner and loser. There are no ties.
Someone never took a college econ course, apparently.
Another nice outing and win for Cease tonight!
Well said! Eloy and Cease looking better every day.
IDK what the Cubs did to Q.
He was so reliable under Cooper and the White Sox!
You make me embarrassed to be a Chicagoan.
The White Sox organization needs to make some successive deep playoff runs before they can talk about “winning” any trade.
It’s great to have a “deep” farm system and several “team friendly” deals but in the end only one result matters and that is a World Series trophy.
Quintana is the poster boy for analytics gone wrong. He always out performs his results but the one thing analytics cannot determine is mental toughness, something Q simply does not have. Based on the analytics, the Cubs thought they were getting four years of Jon Lester in his prime for half the cost and Q pitched number for number like Lester with one difference, Q has never been able to limit the big inning. It’s completely different playing in front of an empty stadium for a team that no one cares about (White Sox) than it is playing in front of sell out crowds every day, in the middle of a team that is in “win now” mode.
I remember when the White Sox won the World Series, they still failed to out draw the last place Cubs team.
Did it happen while doing dishes?
“Inflammation” is the new “sore”. What a time to be alive.
Any trade with whit sox gives JUNK IN RETURN
Eloy. Cease.
Loser
Cubs on the trade that is. They definitely lost it. Oh well. At least they didn’t trade an elite prospect for a washed up mid 30s pitcher.
Fernando Tatis Jr.
The White Sox certainly regret that
In TA#7 we trust! Don’t need another SS.
We certainly don’t need any more HR hitters. Have too many of those already!
Opens a spot for Alzolay, he will be a mainstay. Should have dealt Q at the deadline.
Well, that’s a punch in the lat.
We’ll have to look on the bright side.
Ad-bert! Ad-bert! Ad-bert!
Cubs were just all in with hopes of repeating so they emptied the farm system a year after giving away Gleyber.
Cubs did not give away Gleybar. They traded him for the only world series championship in anyone heres lifetime. If you cannot see that I cannot help you.
Haha ouch!
The Cubs should have given Quintana away in the preseason to get under the luxury tax threshold. I would have taken a solid but unspectacular middle reliever with a couple of years of control for Q in a heart beat. Unfortunately, Epstein was obsessed with trading Bryant and put the bigger picture on the back burner.
In regards to Bryant…. I think he may be “playing” his last season in Chicago. I don’t see anyway possible the Cubs go over the luxury tax and they have a lot of holes to address. Almora will be non-tendered or traded and Bryant is making too much money based on his production.
Can’t deal Quintana and they made the right decision keeping him. Why? Because the Cubs are still trying to win. They will need Quintana in 4 weeks and they hope he can recover by then. The Cubs bullpen is still suspect and they need all hands on-deck to make one last push this year.
Had they traded him the return would have been underwhelming. If the Cubs go deep this year nobody will remember the Jose Quintana trade him or not saga.
I disagree.
The Cubs have very little to spend next season if they hope to stay under the luxury tax and avoiding the next tier of luxury tax offender penalties. The Cubs should have slotted Mills into the fifth starter slot, traded Q for salary relief and bullpen help and rolled with Mills/Chatwood/Alzolay and signed Taijuan Walker to a deal (he signed 2 million with Seattle)
Newsflash: Cubs aren’t spending next year. We are aware they don’t have money to spend unless they are willing to spend beyond the threshold.
Walker is an easy decision in-hindsight. Sorry, not buying that.
Now that we are looking forward and not backward the Cubs will need Quintana healthy. He shouldn’t start in the postseason but bullpen? Yep.
Exactly Cubs traded Away Gleyber to win a WS. They traded away Jimenez and Cease the following year in hopes of repeating. The farm system is and was depleted.
I agree with Tetley here.