Jose Quintana signs with Angels

The former Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs pitcher has agreed to a deal to join the Los Angeles Angels.

Jose Quintana is headed west after agreeing to a deal with the Los Angeles Angels.

The deal will be for one-year and worth $8 million.

The deal will reunite Quintana with former Cubs manager Joe Maddon.

Jose Quintana spent 2012 through mid-2017 with the White Sox before heading being traded to the crosstown Cubs. Quintana was significantly better with the White Sox, compiling a 3.53 ERA, 1.250, and a 7.6 K/9/. While with the Cubs Quintana did have a higher K/9 (8.6), but did not have an ERA below 4.00 or a WHIP below 1.300 in a full season. Quintana’s 3.74 ERA and 1.103 WHIP in his 14 game stint in 2017 may be an outlier considering that his numbers afterward reverted to his pre-Cubs form from earlier in the 2017 season.

The Angels will be hoping that Jose Quintana continues to be durable and helps bolster a rotation that certainly needs some help. In addition to Quintana, Los Angeles has Andrew Heaney, Dylan Bunny, Griffin Canning, and Jaime Barria. The Angels also have Shohei Ohtani, but he only made two starts last season due a right elbow injury. How the Angels handle their pitching rotation for 2021 will be interesting considering how many options they have and how much they want Ohtani to be a part of those plans.