In his three starts since the trade deadline, Jeff Samardzija is doing his best to give the White Sox keeper's remorse.
This is bad: He struggled against the Cubs on Friday, allowing six runs over six innings.
This is worse: He lowered his August ERA in the process.
Samardzija is now 0-3 with a 12.91 ERA and five homers over just 15u2153 innings this month, and he's weighing down the Sox' faint postseason hopes as much as anybody. That's not what anybody envisioned -- not the Sox when they traded for him, not Samardzija when he didn't seriously entertain early extensions, and not the Sox when they refused to trade him for merely anything two weeks ago.