Unless they either seriously crush or blow the next 10 games or so, the frustrating reality about the White Sox is that come the end of July, there will still be a feasible enough chance at winning the AL Central to justify making trades.
Historically, White Sox trade deadlines have been frustrating affairs, even when in contention. I’ve already covered Rick Hahn’s generally brutal trade history in these pages, but it goes even farther back than his tenure: The 2009 acquisition of Jake Peavy stands as the only true deadline splash made by this team in-between last year’s Craig Kimbrel trade and the humorous acquisition of Jurassic Carl Everett in back-to-back seasons of 2003-04.