The numbers behind how much the White Sox have improved

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The White Sox have been one of the busier teams, netting free agents Yasmani Grandal, Gio Gonzalez, Dallas Keuchel and Edwin Encarnacion and trading for Nomar Mazara. Using WAR can provide a ballpark number on how much these players will add to the White Sox, even if it's imperfect as an overall metric. Starting with the hitters, it's an amusing note that James McCann was worth 3.8 WAR (per Baseball Reference) last year while Grandal was 2.5.

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