Sox won’t reveal direction until after season

CHICAGO — To rebuild or not to rebuild? That is the question facing general manager Rick Hahn and the White Sox organization as they move through another season “mired in mediocrity” to quote a previous Hahn news conference. Hahn and company have a pretty good idea as to the answer, but the team’s direction won’t be divulged until after the current campaign is complete.

“By the time we make our first or second transaction, publicly it will be fairly clear as to our direction,” said Hahn during a 15-minute pregame meeting with the media Thursday. “While we aren’t going to say, ‘Next on our list is this,’ it will be obvious what we’re trying to accomplish.

“We have a sense of what we want to do, but we have 25 guys in there trying to win a ballgame tonight. If I were to say we’re going to do a full rebuild, that’s disrespectful to what they’re trying to accomplish.

“To the other extreme, if I were to say we’re going to fight and go for it and plug the holes it begs the question, ‘Where are the holes?’ and that’s disrespectful to the guys in the clubhouse,” Hahn said. “It’s just not the time to be laying out offseason plans. We’re working on it, exploring a lot of angles internally trying to …

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