The White Sox originally drafted left-handed pitcher Gio Gonzalez with the 38th overall pick in the 2004 MLB Draft. After just a year in the Sox farm system, Gonzalez was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies after the 2005 season along with Aaron Rowand for Jim Thome.
Gonzalez would later return to the Sox organization the very next year when he was included in a trade from the Phillies along with Gavin Floyd in exchange for Freddy Garcia. Unfortunately, Gonzalez would never make his MLB debut in a White Sox uniform as he was again included in a trade, this time in January of 2008 to the Oakland Athletics in a deal for Nick Swisher.