Yesterday was a big day for the Cubs. Rather, yesterday was a huge day for the Cubs. I don't need to recap the deals for you all, but I will anyway: within about an hour of each other, the Cubs signed Ben Zobrist to a four-year, $56 million deal and then traded Starlin Castro to the Yankees for Adam Warren and Brendan Ryan.
It's difficult to separate these moves given the position's of Zobrist and Castro and given that proximity of the moves to each other.