There are a lot of issues with the White Sox. The way this season as gone, I’ve spent a lot of Fridays writing about those issues.
This Friday is about one simple thing: A general manager who has spent a decade being unable to make good trades.
Even as the blockbusters that kickstarted the “mired in mediocrity” rebuild fade farther and farther into the rearview mirror, you have to give Rick Hahn a little bit of credit. Extracting nearly 40 WAR out of just three player swaps isn’t an easy feat, even if the players getting shipped out were a future Hall-of Famer and two All-Stars in their prime and on severely under-market contracts.