This is the time when articles are expected to be about proposed deadline trades, but the day of reckoning is now so close that it’s possible one’s brilliant plan to trade Rick Hahn and Ken Williams to the Angels for Shohei Ohtani has already come to fruition, so it’s best to move on to other things.
“I’m disappointed. This is on me. It’s simple.”
Thus spake White Sox manager Pedro Gridol, earlier this week. It was what a manager of any collapsing enterprise is pretty much required to say, unless, of course, he’s a Hall-of-Famer Baseball Person.