NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- There's an old expression you hear from general managers every winter. It goes kind of like this:
Buying is easy. Selling is hard.
So for a team that hasn't held a storewide clearance sale in almost 20 years, you have to hand it to the Chicago White Sox. They're turning out to be every bit as good at this as Macy's.
Two days and two monster trades into their Everything Must Go sale, they've made two of the best winter-meetings sell-off deals of modern times. And it has changed the face, and the direction, of their franchise.