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Can left-hander Carlos Rodón — who will start Tuesday’s ALDS Game 4 — save the Chicago White Sox’s season? ‘It all depends which Rodón is present.’

Coming into the postseason, left-hander Carlos Rodón represented a wild card for the Chicago White Sox. Rodón made only six starts after July 29, including just twice during the final three weeks of the regular season. When Rodón has been healthy this year, his performance — 2.14 ERA in 16 starts between April and mid July — put him among the baseball’s best starting pitchers. He wasn’t a lock ...

Coming into the postseason, left-hander Carlos Rodón represented a wild card for the Chicago White Sox.

Rodón made only six starts after July 29, including just twice during the final three weeks of the regular season. When Rodón has been healthy this year, his performance — 2.14 ERA in 16 starts between April and mid July — put him among the baseball’s best starting pitchers. He wasn’t a lock to be part of the Sox’s American League Division Series roster because of his health, limited by what he described before Sunday’s 12-6 win against the Houston Astros as arm soreness and fatigue.

“My goal this year was to just get

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