Rockies 5, White Sox 4 (14 innings)

It may be a month to the trading deadline, but SSS duty geezer Leigh Allan and his son and west coast correspondent, Will, are ready to start swapping and get the clearing-out done early, if anybody will go along:

Who might want Garrett Crochet sooner rather than later in order to control his workload and have him in prime condition in October?

The Sox wanting to put Andrew Vaughn on the market right away to take advantage of his annual June resurgence and maximize value before Vaughn’s annual July swoon

The likelihood Luis Robert, Jr. will be playing elsewhere come August (unlikely)

And the same for Michael Kopech, John Brebbia, Paul DeJong, Tommy Pham and a host of others (likely)

Then they…