By five days after the World Series ends, the White Sox will have three player option decisions to make.
Normally, that’s not difficult. You just look at the player’s performance in the past season and the cost of the option, plug in your method of evaluation (such as about $4.5 million per WAR) click the appropriate key. Or, if you’re no more capable than the White Sox front office is, you flip a coin.
This time, though, each of the three situations is out of the ordinary, giving rookie GM Chris Getz a chance to try to show he’s more than just a platitude-spewing, butt-kissing non-entity like his predecessors and the manager the Sox say they’re going to keep for no discernible reason.