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White Sox could be both buyers and sellers
- Updated: July 27, 2016
CHICAGO — The White Sox have a possibility of becoming buyers and sellers as Monday’s non-waiver Trade Deadline approaches.
And the buying portion of that idea focuses well beyond helping the team win in 2016.
“You have the conversations,” said White Sox executive vice president Ken Williams, who was known to pull off a trade or two during his time as general manager. “[General manager] Rick [Hahn] is having all the conversations, most of them are coming his way in terms of teams calling him.
“We’ll sit down after he kind of gets his game plan together, and we’ll discuss and debate, like we always have. You say that we’re going to be buyers or sellers or both, we just don’t know.”
Let’s use Chris Sale and Jose Quintana as examples of the buyer/seller combined possibility. Obviously trading one or both of these talented southpaws weakens the White Sox present case — a remote playoff possibility with the club eight games out in the American League Central and 6 1/2 games out of the AL’s second Wild Card prior to Tuesday’s contest.
These are pitchers also playing under team-friendly …
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