The White Sox did their part to help thaw baseball’s frozen hot stove league with their involvement in a three-team, five-player trade Thursday that bolstered a decimated bullpen.
While the rest of the baseball world sits in a holding pattern, with big-name free agents Jake Arrieta, Yu Darvish, Alex Cobb, Greg Holland, J.D. Martinez and Eric Hosmer still on the market and trades few and far between, the Sox pulled the trigger on a deal that landed relievers Joakim Soria and Luis Avilan.
The names involved in the trade between the Sox, Royals and Dodgers weren’t as surprising as the fact there was a trade at all.