One after another, baseball executives from nearly all 30 teams meeting in the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor, Md., came up to congratulate White Sox general manager Rick Hahn and vice president Ken Williams for making two trades that immediately transformed the franchise.
It felt gratifying. It felt humbling.
"It feels weird, even a little uncomfortable,'' Hahn told the Tribune in an interview. "Later, when Kenny and I had moment to ourselves, we said, 'Man … people are well-intentioned in saying very kind words but we're also thinking, we just traded Chris Sale.