I, along with many others, was glad when the White Sox non-tendered Carlos Rodón at the outset of the 2020-21 offseason.
Rodón had been a talented, but horrendously unreliable pitcher who never fully delivered on his prospect pedigree as a No. 3 overall pick due to a cascade of injuries (though, to his credit, he turned out a helluva lot better than the two guys picked ahead of him).
I was equally livid when they brought him back to be the fifth starter in a season where they had World Series aspirations. While the $3 million price tag wasn’t exorbitant, it seemed like a waste of precious resources on a team that had just decided that they couldn’t afford to get a real right fielder — and for a pitcher who didn’t appear a good bet to be in one piece by the time postseason play started.