For the second time previously ten years, the White Sox discover themselves in a full-scale rebuild. Not like many different golf equipment which have torn the roster all the way down to the studs and constructed again up, there was no actual halcyon interval between the 2 rebuilds. The South Siders tore all of it down after the 2015 season, completed no higher than 72 wins in any of the following 4 seasons, and had a two-year run atop the AL Central — considered one of which was the shortened 2020 season —Â earlier than their subsequent nosedive. The 2020 Sox misplaced to the A’s in a three-game Wild Card sequence. The 2021 Sox misplaced to the Astros within the ALDS. That was that. Chicago completed the 2022 season with a disappointing 81-81 document, they usually drove off a cliff in 2023 with a 101-loss season that led to the firing of longtime baseball operations execs Rick Hahn and Kenny Williams.
Former assistant GM Chris Getz was tasked with turning issues round. His offseason consisted of buying and selling Dylan Stop, Aaron Bummer and Gregory Santos in a sequence of future-focused swaps. The ChiSox made principally modest additions to the massive league roster, with a heavy concentrate on enhancing the membership’s protection.
The rebuild continued into the early levels of the 2024 season. Getz’s entrance workplace inked Robbie Grossman to a minor league contract in late March and managed to flip him after simply 25 video games. It was a uncommon sight, each attributable to Grossman’s brief tenure with the staff but additionally as a result of he netted the White Sox an precise prospect: Double-A reliever Anthony Hoopii-Tuionetoa. Might trades of massive league gamers — significantly those that simply signed within the offseason — are exceedingly uncommon. Most early trades of this nature come on the heels of a DFA. That wasn’t the case right here. As Darragh McDonald and I mentioned on this week’s podcast, this was extra akin to a lower-profile commerce deadline swap. It was frankly a pleasant little bit of enterprise for the White Sox.
Getz and his workers should not cease right here, and their subsequent swap also needs to come before later. Whereas there’s any variety of gamers on the White Sox’ roster who make sense as a commerce candidate, there’s one particularly who stands as a logical early-season goal for different golf equipment.
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