White Sox pitchers lured Yasmani Grandal, now he's luring pitchers like Dallas Keuchel

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Yasmani Grandal came to the South Side, in part, because of pitching. The new White Sox catcher, the first of what's turned out to be multiple splashes for Rick Hahn's front office this winter, offered little more than hope that fellow free agents would follow his lead in buying into what the White Sox have cooking. Perhaps still the area with the most question marks on the White Sox roster, Grandal was not deterred by queries of whether Lucas Giolito's transformation will be a permanent one, whether Reynaldo Lopez can find some consistency, whether Dylan Cease's struggles in 2019 were merely first-taste-of-the-bigs growing pains, whether Michael Kopech will be the same pitcher who was promised before his Tommy John surgery and whether there will be enough depth to prevent a repeat of the Ervin Santana-Manny Banuelos-Odrisamer Despaigne-Dylan Covey parade that blew up the rotation's numbers last season.

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