For Hahn and White Sox, patience a virtue

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The word rebuild was never specifically used by White Sox general manager Rick Hahn during his 16-minute media session at the Gaylord Resort & Convention Center during baseball’s Winter Meetings on Monday night, but with the fairly detailed explanation he provided for each question, there’s little doubt the organization is changing its approach to constructing the team.

“It’s been an interesting few weeks leading up to this. All you have to do is type ‘White Sox rumors’ into Twitter and you can see all sorts of interesting ideas being floated about,” said a smiling Hahn, who admitted that some of the rumors made a little more sense than others. “We are approaching this with a wide-open frame of mind and having a number of interesting conversations on different fronts.

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“We are pretty confident about what we want to try to accomplish and how that’s going to unfold. Again, our focus is on the long-term. It’s fairly clear how this process is going to take place. Until we start making actual trades, it’s a little harder to explain why a certain move was made.”

Teams have been asking about White Sox ace Chris Sale since at least the last non-waiver Trade Deadline. A few national reports on Monday pointed to the Nationals as …

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