With the World Series set to begin Friday at Minute Maid Park in Houston, you can’t help but wonder what could’ve been for the Chicago White Sox. What if they had changed managers in midcourse, as the Philadelphia Phillies did while fixing their mojo in June by replacing manager Joe Girardi with Rob Thomson? What if they had re-signed Carlos Rodón, who won 14 games for the San Francisco Giants and finished second among starting pitchers with a 6.2 WAR, according to Fangraphs? What if management made a significant move at the trade deadline when the American League Central was still a winnable …
