I'm shocked Paul Konerko never got a $100 million contract from them back in the day haha.
But yeah they did mostly focus on short term contracts for free agents and vets. In the mid 2000's, Jermaine Dye, Jose Contreras, El Duque, Jim Thome etc. Most of their talent developed, they never signed to long term deals before they became FA's or they traded them before free agency like Chris Sale.