He looks like an academic, that Rick Hahn. He certainly has the papers — Michigan undergrad, Harvard Law, Kellogg School of Management — to go along with an appearance that makes you think he wears patches on his elbows.
And then the White Sox GM rips off the tweed jacket to reveal a big red H on his chest and SuperHahn rockets across the sky, swoops down across major league offices and, faster than a speeding bullet, scoops up every team’s best prospect, or prospects, plural, or former No. 1 draft choice, or all of the above.
Baseball’s new Clark Kent struck again Tuesday night, trading third baseman Todd Frazier, closer David Robertson and reliever Tommy Kahnle to the Yankees for four players, three of them prospects, and one of them, outfielder Blake Rutherford, the prize of the deal, just became the fourth-ranked prospect in the Sox’s suddenly talent-packed and much-envied farm system.