In case you didn’t know it already, you know it now: The White Sox are in win-now mode.
The ingredients have long existed for the South Siders to make the jump from rebuilding mode to contending mode in 2020, and the free-agent additions of Yasmani Grandal and Dallas Keuchel (the latter widely reported but still not officially announced by the team) this winter added to a young core that looked capable of making a postseason run in the upcoming season. But the multi-year deals for Grandal and Keuchel were as much about keeping the White Sox contention window open years into the future as they were providing an immediate boost in 2020.