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How White Sox stack up in offseason arms race with other AL contenders

For the longest time, the White Sox were the only American League team doing much of anything this offseason. Well, the rest of the Junior Circuit has done well in playing catch-up since the White Sox seemingly broke a winter logjam by signing Liam Hendriks to a four-year contract. The White Sox might still have the best roster, on paper, in the AL. But while the Central Division hasn’t done much in the way of mounting challenges to that claim — no Central Division team has, as our Gordon Wittenmyer broke down recently — teams in the East and West are emerging as the other contenders for that title, and by extension the actual title that comes in late October: a pennant. So here’s a look at how the White Sox and the rest of the AL’s contenders have done in reshaping their rosters so far this winter.
BY  Vinnie Duber  - 
USA Today
For the longest time, the White Sox were the only American League team doing much of anything this offseason. Well, the rest of the Junior Circuit has done well in playing catch-up since the White Sox seemingly broke a winter logjam by signing Liam Hendriks to a four-year contract. The White Sox might still have the best roster, on paper, in the AL. But while the Central Division hasn’t done much in the way of mounting challenges to that claim — no Central Division team has, as our Gordon Wittenmyer broke down recently — teams in the East and West are emerging as the other contenders for that title, and by extension the actual title that comes in late October: a pennant. So here’s a look at how the White Sox and the rest of the AL’s contenders have done in reshaping their rosters so far this winter.