But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re done. The White Sox collection of trade assets is bereft of impact names, so it’s not exactly surprising that teams weren’t clamoring for their services And the names mentioned above (with the exception of Abreu) shouldn’t have a lot of trouble clearing waivers, which would allow an August deal to go through.

Likewise, Rick Hahn has been a fairly active dealer even after the July 31 deadline passes. Since taking over as general manager before the 2013 season, he’s made 18 “deadline deals” (I’m defining that as trades made in June, July, or August) including last week’s deal that sent Joakim Soria to the Brewers. Of those 18, seven came in August.

• 2013: Traded Alex Rios to the Texas Rangers for Leury Garcia
• 2014: Traded Gordon Beckham to the Los Angeles Angels for PTBNL (Yency Almonte)
• 2014: Traded Alejandro De Aza to the Baltimore Orioles for Mark Blackmar and Miguel Chalas
• 2014: Traded Adam Dunn to the Oakland Athletics for Nolan Sanburn
• 2016: Traded Dioner Navarro to the Toronto Blue Jays for Colton Turner
• 2017: Traded Tyler Clippard to the Houston Astros for cash considerations
• 2017: Trade Miguel Gonzalez to the Texas Rangers for Ti’Quan Forbes

These are hardly impact deals, of course. Rios for Garcia has worked out in the long run, but at the time was considered a deal where the White Sox look a lighter return in exchange for saving approximately $3 million for the rest of that season, plus $12.5 million or a $1 million buyout the year after. Almonte kind of came out of nowhere to become an interesting prospect and was later traded to the Rockies for Tommy Kahnle. Forbes has been playable at High-A Winston-Salem this year and could maybe top out as a utility infielder at the major league level.

Other than that, not a lot to be excited about, but from the standpoint of rebuilding teams cashing in on assets that aren’t in the long-term plans in exchange for lottery tickets is a fine strategy and one would expect Hahn to keep busy in August looking for those sort of deals.

As for Schryver, he’s a 23-year-old lefty the Rays drafted in the seventh round a year ago. In 48 2/3 innings between Low-A and High-A this season, he’s struck out 59, walked 14, and has a 2.40 ERA. He’s a reliever and will likely report to Winston-Salem.

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2. Gonzalez wasn’t the only pitcher who had a fine outing on Monday. Anthony Swarzak was asked to get the final four outs of the ballgame, and he did so despite letting things get rocky in the ninth. Swarzak is interesting because, aside from Melky Cabrera, he’s the one remaining player on the roster that might be moved at the deadline. He has a 2.30 ERA while striking out batters at a 27.8 percent clip against walking only 6.7 percent of them. The question now is whether the White Sox will get more value in a trade than they could receive from Swarzak simply pitching a good number of innings. It’s easy to say that they can find someone to fill the innings if need be, but it’s not always that simple. With that said, the reliever market is weird and some team could blow them away. In that case, it would absolutely make sense to send him packing.

3. As for Cabrera, even manager Rick Renteria commented that he was surprised that he was still on the team. That’s probably because he’s been both red hot lately and consistently good over the course of the season. His .295/.338/.443 slash line is bound to be an upgrade for some team that believes they’re in the race. It seems like the market for corner outfielders isn’t that great, but with Cabrera’s contract expiring at the end of the season, it’s likely the best option for the team to get whatever they can.

4. Yoan Moncada has received a lot of attention for, well, pretty much every plate appearance. So far it hasn’t really gone his way. He’s stepped to the plate just 15 times, so it’s certainly not a sample size worth fretting over. However, the strikeout concerns quickly entered the forefront of fans’ minds when he struck out four times in Monday’s game against the Cubs. One of those was a close called strike, and another was a nasty Hendricks changeup after bunt attempts (not even gonna go there) forced him to a two strike count. Even with those excuses, it remains a concern. It’s way too early to make a grand conclusion, but it would be great to see Moncada drill some extra base hits in the near future.

5. One of the nice things about the influx of prospect talent in the White Sox system is that it has pushed the former top prospects to much more comfortable positions on the team’s prospect hierarchy. One such example is Carson Fulmer, who started 2017 fairly well, but has mostly just been bad. He has a season ERA of 5.42 while sporting an abysmal 15.5 strikeout rate with a 11.3 percent walk rate that only makes things worse. His outing on Monday didn’t help matters as he pitched just five innings, allowing seven hits and four earned runs while walking four and striking out five. Before the rebuild began, a Fulmer bust would have been disastrous. Now his almost inevitable move to the bullpen is hardly a big deal at all. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be concern, but it’s certainly nice to have the depth in the system to alleviate the pain of an early first round pick falling flat on his face.

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In the end, none of those rumors turned out to be much more than that.  While Hahn and co. likely took calls from all interested parties on most of their roster, yesterday’s 3:00 PM deadline passed without another move, keeping together a roster that will almost assuredly extend the Sox’ playoff drought to 8 years.

Unlike their approach to last year’s deadline, it’s unfair to criticize the Sox for delusions of grandeur- they didn’t hold onto a player like Jeff Samardizja as a last ditch effort to win this season at the expense of the future. Every player of real trade value on their roster will be under contract for at least 2017, so standing pat at the deadline does not necessarily diminish any rebuilding effort, and may actually allow for more (and better) options to develop for a trade involving a franchise cornerstone like Sale or Quintana.  While trades would have been at the very least interesting and could have refreshed a roster that has grown stale, there was no imminent need to make a move.

With all that said, after nearly a decade of half-measures towards contention and rebuilding have the Sox stuck in their current holding pattern, its hard not to fear a certain level of indecisiveness went into standing pat at the deadline.  While there’s certainly no rush to trade Sale or Quintana, selling high on Melky Cabrera or capitalizing on the relief pitching bull market by moving David Robertson or Nate Jones would seem to be prudent.  And while it’s very likely the Sox fielded offers on each of those players, it’s hard to give them the benefit of the doubt at this point.  Be it due to a lack of willingness or simply a matter of resources, the White Sox front office has simply not shown an ability to make the moves necessary to get them out of their current era of non-contention.

Another possible explanation for the hesitance beyond indecisiveness would be an impending house-cleaning of the White Sox front office.  While expecting sweeping changes in an office run by Jerry Reinsdorf is perhaps unreasonable, the current regime certainly has not done enough to completely rule it out- this is now a regime that has neither built a playoff team nor a minor league system in the top half of the league in nearly a decade.  Even if Hahn himself isn’t to blame, it’s possible he and his staff just are not the right fit in Chicago, and if that’s the case, there’d be no reason to allow him to set the course of the organization with a franchise defining trade of a player of Sale or Quintana’s caliber.  Even if there’s an inkling of doubt in the chairman’s head, it’d make sense for him to be unwilling to approve of such a deal.

No matter the reason, the Sox are now in a position that’s been all too familiar over the past few years.  They have a team with some elite, exciting talent, but a roster that isn’t going anywhere, and a farm system not ready to even foreshadow future success with September call-ups.  All this adds up to a team hardly worth watching- a team whose stadium will only sell out again this year to see one of its most iconic fans host a rap festival in September.