The White Sox aren’t the only baseball team in town making trades.
The Cubs on Saturday traded for pitching depth, acquiring right-hander Jharel Cotton from the Athletics for cash.
Cotton, 27, missed all of 2018 because of an elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery and returned from the injury this season in time to make 14 appearances at Class AAA, starting in July, with increasingly better results.
Cotton, who was designated for assignment Wednesday, made 29 starts for the A’s in 2016-17, going 11-10 with a 4.95 ERA.
He was a 20th-round pick in 2012 by the Dodgers, who included him in the five-player Rich Hill trade four years later.