The Oracle at 35th and Delphi

White Sox general manager Rick Hahn came down from Olympus to address the media before the team’s last home game on Wednesday, and guess what?  The Sox are closer to contention than they were.  Just don’t try and pin down Hahn as to a date, or anything else, for that matter.  By the time he’s done, you won’t know up from down.

Here’s Hahn on the subject of free agency:  “You can say in 2020 or 2021 we expect to be this [what, a team with a pulse?] and we’re going to need X [though not necessarily Xavier Cedeno].  You can’t look at the projected free agent and say that player will be available much less that player will be a White Sox when the time comes.”  Rick, life is short, and nobody needs to listen to a windbag.  Why not keep it short and just say either, “Yes. we’re ready to go out and sign some free agents,” or, “No, we’re still in rebuild mode”? 

If nothing else, you’d win points for honesty as well as brevity.