You might have thought Cubs President Theo Epstein and White Sox general manager Rick Hahn had swapped bodies the other day if you weren’t paying closer attention.
While Hahn was fueling speculation the Sox would be in the mix to add a megabucks free agent to a 100-loss team that’s nowhere close to contending, Epstein was downplaying the possibility of adding a big-name hitter to a 95-win team whose window to win remains wide open.
What’s wrong with this picture? Is this the start of a bizarro baseball winter in Chicago?