The Chicago Sun-Times says the White Sox could add salary to its payroll this season as opposed to surrendering the season.

Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said the Sox could add salary, but the team may be good enough if it continues to play well.

”But you have to be realistic,” he said. ”This was a soft part of the schedule. You have to win these games. Detroit is actually hotter than we are. We’ll just play the games and see what happens.”

”First, if you really want to move players, the buyers aren’t there yet,” Reinsdorf said. ”It’s not time yet. Right now, people are saying, ‘I like your guy, but I’m not taking on any salary.’ That means you’re not a buyer. When you get closer to July 31, that’s when the buyers come out, and hopefully we’ll be a buyer at that time. Hopefully we won’t be a seller.”

Reinsdorft also understands the Minnesota Twins could be spenders because of their new stadium the increased revenue it generates.

”If you’re going to compete, you have to,” Reinsdorf said. ”There are going to be [times] in every franchise’s existence where you don’t compete. The system is designed for the bottom teams to get better and the lesser teams to get better draft choices. The trick in this business is when you’re bad, have a low payroll and marshal your money, so that when you have a chance to be good, you can go out and spend it. And we have always been good at that. This is the first time I can remember where we have a high payroll and the team hasn’t played well, but maybe we’re good. The way we’re playing, maybe it will turn out that we’re good.”

The White Sox have shifted from a possible sell-off strategy earlier this month to going into a holding pattern last week.