In the words of poet Robert Frost, the Chicago White Sox currently stand in front of two diverging roads and they cannot travel both. Should they take the one less traveled? And would that make all the difference?
These are the questions Rick Hahn and company have to be asking themselves post a winter meetings that saw them add third baseman Brett Lawrie. Parting with pitching prospects Jeffery Wendelken and Zack Erwin did not hamstring the White Sox to the point that they have no choice but to win-now.
This package was weak enough, that if the White Sox were to switch gears and rebuild, they could do so without feeling as though they had made a futile trade.