In a frantic last-second attempt to contend before being forced to tear it all down, the Chicago White Sox were involved in a blockbuster three-team trade with the Dodgers and the Reds that sent Todd Frazier to the South Side.
The trade as explained in the third piece in this series regarding Trayce Thompson, the White Sox came away with, at the time, a top ten third-baseman who just won the Home Run Derby the year prior.
So it is April 2016. The Chicago White Sox have Chris Sale and José Quintana at the top of the rotation.