Collecting Rule 5: White Sox acquire SS Gage Workman from Cubs

Meet your newest waiver-wire-and-Rule-5 acquisition, Gage Workman! Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Brett Ballantini has written about baseball, basketball and sometimes hockey for the NBA, MLB, NHL, and Slam, Hoop, Sporting News, the Athletic, Sports Illustrated, South Side Hit Pen, Sox Populi, SB Nation and others. He was CSN Chicago’s Blackhawks beat writer when their 49-year Stanley Cup drought ended in 2009-10, and moved to the White Sox beat after that. Brett has run South Side Sox since 2018.

Chris Getz seems to have found a curious crack in the baseball industry: Collecting Rule 5 players drafted by other teams and then dropped.

The GM made his second such move this year (Mike…