If I had a dollar for every time someone wished that the White Sox would trade Chris Sale, I’d be a much richer man. It’s not often that legitimate star pitching which is under a team-friendly contract (Sale is set to make $38 million over the next three seasons, and in the event of catastrophic injury, the team would only be on the hook for $14 million) is dealt. But the White Sox determined it was time to do a total rebuild, and so Sale was dealt to the Red Sox.
In return, the White Sox get four top prospects, but neither of the most highly-coveted Red Sox players, as Andrew Benintendi and Jackie Bradley, Jr.