White Sox need to broaden their trade options

White Sox front office marquee. News the White Sox optioned to Charlotte both Andrew Vaughn (five years too late) and Tim Elko (at least a month too soon) conjures up the vision of a defensive alignment that calls for pitchers to run over to first base really, really quickly on every ground ball. The Sox lack the creativity for that, though, so they’ll probably just have Lenyn Sosa play first more, which improves the defense at both first, where Vaughn is a horror show, and second, where Sosa is terrible. (In the first game after the moves, Miguel Vargas started at first, thereby making the D at third much worse with Josh Rojas there, which is as typical a White Sox move as you can get.)

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