After dealing away their most attractive trade chip, what's next for White Sox at deadline?

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The White Sox made their first move of trade-deadline season Thursday, trading away Joakim Soria in exchange for a couple pitching prospects in a deal with the Milwaukee Brewers.

OK, South Side baseball fans might be thinking, so what's next?

Last summer, Rick Hahn was busy finalizing trade after trade and shipping a big chunk of the major league roster out of town. Jose Quintana, David Robertson, Tommy Kahnle, Anthony Swarzak, Todd Frazier, Melky Cabrera, Dan Jennings, Miguel Gonzalez and Tyler Clippard were all traded away.

Hahn has already cautioned that this deadline will be different, the reality of where the team is in its rebuilding process. He had a lot of major league talent worth trading away last season. This season, not so much because the focus has shifted to development rather than acquisition. But are there more deals to come this summer?

Soria was the most obvious candidate to go given his terrific performance over the last two and a half months. He's got a 0.74 ERA since May 21, allowing scoring in just one outing in that span. Bullpen help is often at the top of many contenders' wishlists at this time of year, and Soria was talked about as one of the most attractive names on the relief-pitching market.

That's not to say that the White Sox had only Soria to trade or that any other player to get plucked by a contending team looking for depth would come as a surprise. But Soria was in a separate tier from the rest of his potentially tradeable teammates.

James Shields could draw some interest. He doesn't seem like a top-of-the-rotation addition to a team in a playoff chase, but he could provide valuable starting-pitching depth and the experience of pitching in two World Series. Shields' season has been a mixed bag. He finished April with a 6.14 ERA but turned in a combined 3.59 ERA in May and June. July has been more up and down, with three good starts and two rough ones, including Wednesday's in Anaheim, when he was tagged for six runs in four innings.

Bullpen arms Xavier Cedeno and Luis Avilan aren't as high-profile as Soria, though they're worth mentioning. Cedeno's been very good, with a 1.35 ERA in his 17 appearances, while Avilan hasn't been quite as dominant, with a 4.08 ERA in 45 appearances.

Then there are big bats Avisail Garcia and Jose Abreu, who keep finding their names in trade speculation regardless of how realistic a deal might be.

Garcia figures to be the more expendable of the two given the organization's incredible wealth of outfield prospects. He's been on the disabled list twice this season with hamstring injuries, but since returning from the first and longest of those two stints — he was sidelined for two months — he's got a .298/.307/.702 slash line with nine home runs and 18 RBIs in 22 games. That could attract teams in need of outfield help.

Abreu, meanwhile, is having a down year by his high standards, slashing .255/.318/.443 with 14 home runs and 55 RBIs after putting up at least 25 homers, 100 RBIs, a .290 batting average and a .345 on-base percentage in each of his first four major league seasons. But the main reason a trade would seem unlikely is how glowingly the White Sox talk about him and how highly they value him as a clubhouse presence and a role model for their many young players. Abreu is especially close to second baseman Yoan Moncada, one of the stars of this rebuild, and his incredible track record of production could make him, despite his advancing age, a valuable bat when the team is once again competing for championships.

The most obvious trade chip might have been played, but there could still be more deals on the South Side this summer.

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