How better management can improve the White Sox defense — without losing their most productive hitter
The White Sox are between many rocks and many hard places.
The team’s best, most beloved player of the last decade — and the latest in the franchise’s storied history of borderline Hall of Fame first basemen — is a free agent. There might not be room to bring him back.
I’m the last person to make excuses for this front office, and I’m rarely one to throw up my hands and stop advocating for a $230 million payroll with the knowledge that Jerry Reinsdorf can afford it, particularly after what might be the franchise’s most disastrous season of the century.