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White Sox should consider trading Quintana
- Updated: July 22, 2016
CHICAGO — Jose Quintana has got it all.
He’s highly skilled, durable, consistently works deep into games and is under control through 2020 at a below-market price. He’s been the sixth most effective starter since 2013 based on fWAR, heading the tier of starters just behind the elite arms — Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer, David Price, Corey Kluber and Chris Sale.
Yet it’s time for the White Sox to cut him loose.
In his four seasons as a general manager, Rick Hahn has worked to construct a playoff team behind his No. 1 and No. 2 starters, Chris Sale and Quintana. It looked like he might succeed when the White Sox got off to a 23-10 start this season, but that proved to be just a gigantic tease, with the more telling stretch the one in which they played .377 baseball over their next 61 games.
Only the Rays (22-42) and Reds (22-40) have delivered fewer wins since May 10 than the White Sox, who have gone 23-38. They did this despite releasing John Danks and trading one of their most intriguing prospects, 17-year-old shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr., to add James Shields.
As a result, Hahn is taking a lot of calls from other team executives about his inventory of players. He’s listening about everyone, including his twin aces.
“At this point we are being extremely open-minded,” Hahn said Thursday. “At the same time, there’s no urgency really to move any of these players if we aren’t getting the return on it we feel is appropriate. If we do, then it’s conceivable we do something that is more extensive.”
It’s time to do more than just listen with regards to Quintana. The White Sox should make it known they’ll deal the 27-year-old lefty for the right mix of young position players.
They’ve been spinning their wheels since 2008 because of an unproductive farm system. Shortstop Tim Anderson has a chance to be their best homegrown position player since Joe Crede, who was drafted in 1996, but more help is needed.
Quintana offers a chance to accelerate the restocking process, and the White Sox should take it. Here’s why it makes sense:
• Dealing him …
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