SAN DIEGO — From the moment Rick Hahn said “the money will be spent” the evening after Manny Machado agreed to a deal with the Padres, it was a line doomed to get thrown back in his face until the White Sox general manager made a splash in free agency.



“The point of that comment was there’s other ways for us to allocate this money, and it’s going to be allocated toward player acquisitions,” Hahn said Wednesday. “You could argue some of it went to (Yasmani) Grandal, you could argue some of it went to the Eloy (Jiménez) extension or re-signing (José) Abreu or whatever we have coming down the pipe next.



“For me, it’s more knowing that we have these resources available to allocate toward player acquisition, and that’s what it’s going to be used for. That offer was over an eight-to-10-year period, so to say it’s all going out the door in Year 1 just because it’s sitting there,...