Crumbs

Heading into the Crosstown Classic this weekend at Wrigley Field, White Sox general manager Rick Hahn announced he was staying the course, damn’ the torpedoes and full losing ahead.  As bad as his team might be, Hahn as no intention of rushing the talent he’s squirreled away in the minors.

“As satisfying as it might be to reward the fans who have endured this rough start by dropping a top prospect in there as a bit of a cookie to show progress in this process and to make the games perhaps a little more palatable, that will not be the motivation,” Hahn told the Tribune Friday in that convoluted syntax of his.  “It will be based upon the player having completed every element of his development at the minor-league level.”

So, Hahn is either a prolix jerk or a clueless prolix jerk.  Judging by the stats, I’d say there’s a lot of talent at high-A and Double A for the Sox.  If Hahn doesn’t want to bring it to the parent club, he should at a minimum start reshuffling the rosters at Double-A Birmingham and Triple-A Charlotte.  Wait, maybe that’s what he was saying, only it got lost in all the verbiage.