White Sox fans have been great at buying in to Rick Hahn’s rebuilding effort.
But if there were controversies along the way, they stemmed from the dealing away of two of the best young pitchers in the American League.
Chris Sale and Jose Quintana represented the White Sox in the All-Star Game back in 2016, perhaps as good a 1-2 punch as there was in the Junior Circuit and a dream tandem to throw in a playoff series, if the South Siders could ever get there. But they couldn’t. Not in the state they were in. And so Hahn shifted from win-now mode to rebuilding mode, with the trading away of Sale the move that jumpstarted the whole thing.