GM Rick Hahn ‘open-minded on all our guys’ as trade season nears

The White Sox didn’t have to fall an American League-worst 11 games below .500 with a 6-5 loss Monday to the visiting Yankees for everyone around the majors to know general manager Rick Hahn would be selling in the coming weeks.

‘‘I don’t think anything is really different in terms of our conversations over the last year or so,’’ Hahn said. ‘‘People know where we’re at, and it’s clear in terms of our communications with everybody. No one is taken by surprise when we’re on the other end of the call about what we’re looking to do.’’

Hahn said he and the rest of the Sox’ brain trust are open-minded on ‘‘all of our guys,’’ which means he’ll listen to offers for anyone but only will pull the trigger on high-end commodities such as left-hander Jose Quintana if ‘‘appropriate value’’ comes in return.

‘‘Or it’s not going to happen,’’ he said. ‘‘If it doesn’t happen in the course of the next four or five weeks [before the non-waiver trade deadline July 31], we will revisit it in August and again in the offseason.’’

The same could be said of appropriate value for anyone, and it remains to be seen what the market might bear for, say, closer David Robertson, third baseman Todd Frazier and left fielder Melky Cabrera, who have varying degrees of value and pricey contracts. Frazier and Cabrera are under contract through this season and Robertson through next season.

Relievers Tommy Kahnle and Anthony Swarzak and left-hander Derek Holland also have value, but they have low or manageable salaries. Right fielder Avisail Garcia, first baseman Jose Abreu and center fielder Leury Garcia, all of whom are having productive seasons, aren’t the first players who come to mind as trade chips, but Hahn said he’s open to anything.

‘‘We’re looking to accumulate as many impactful guys that are going to have club control through this next window to win a championship,’’ Hahn said. ‘‘That doesn’t mean we’re necessarily limited to guys in A-ball or Double-A. It’s certainly guys whom we view as being able to contribute here as we get ourselves to the level that we need to be at.’’

That would be somewhere other than where the Sox are now, which is a lock to miss the playoffs for a ninth consecutive season. They looked the part Monday, making three errors (Frazier at third, Matt Davidson at first and left-hander David Holmberg) in the first six innings to fall behind 6-1. Only two of the six runs Holmberg (1-2) allowed in 5 1/3 innings were earned.

‘‘It’s more a lack of focus and concentration, to be honest,’’ manager Rick Renteria said. ‘‘Physical mistakes happen, no question about it. Some of it has to do with certain physical actions that you take that might be incorrect. Some just have to do with just concentration.’’

Frazier hit a home run against Yankees starter Jordan Montgomery (6-4) in the second, and shortstop Tim Anderson — perhaps getting a boost from new eyeglasses — blasted a three-run opposite-field shot against reliever Chasen Shreve to pull the Sox to 6-4 in the ninth.

The Sox added a run on a single by Cabrera and an RBI double by Abreu against closer Aroldis Chapman, but Avisail Garcia and Frazier stranded the tying run as the Sox suffered their fourth loss in a row.

‘‘We need to take a long-term view of what we are trying to accomplish,’’ Hahn said.

Hahn said he’ll be active and would be ‘‘mildly disappointed’’ if he doesn’t complete a deal or two.

‘‘We’ve had a lot of conversations,’’ he said. ‘‘A lot of teams are in a feeling-out period right now, and we’ll see in the coming weeks or days that clubs become a little more aggressive, and it will open up the floodgates for everybody around the league to start getting some things done.’’

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