Hatchetman

Gross could be part of a crappy platoon, but we don't use platoons.

Joe is gonna have to go to a Pittsburgh-type of place and prove his back is OK for a year.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 12, 2008 -> 09:48 AM) Punto stinks He probably lead the league in stupid baserunning mistakes that led directly to outs. He has zero power and stinks at the plate. He slides head first into first base, what kind of idiot does that? Why do the Twins even go to the winter meetings? They do nothing ever. This team will be terrible in 2010 when they stop playing on the concrete carpet and actually have to hit for power to score runs. I am a slappy banjo hitter who hardly hits .250 with zero power and runs the bases like Hellen Keller, can I have $8.5 million too? Punto got it. Classic rant. I love it.

Abreu should get something comparable.

Carrasco was certainly serviceable last year but check out what he did in AAA in 2007. Yikes. http://minors.baseball-reference.com/players.cgi?pid=18131

The FA market for 1B is super thin, so maybe the Angels would be desperate. I don't see anyone taking Konerko's contract though.

Flowers won't be coming to Chicago to be a backup.

they're already defending Lovie and the game hasn't even started yet.

From mlbtraderumors.com 2:38pm: Tim Brown and Gordon Edes talked to involved execs (not with the Angels) who believes the Boras camp is "using the media to ratchet up the price beyond what any team had actually offered." Brown and Edes say the Angels were told the Red Sox and Nationals offered eight years at about $20MM per. The Angels don't want to do an eighth year, so they'll look into trades for Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko, and possibly Adrian Beltre. Raul Ibanez is the top free agent backup plan. Brown and Edes believe Boras could insist on an opt-out clause in a deal with the Nationals.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 11, 2008 -> 02:46 PM) It's WSCR, who regularly has inaccurate info. I would take it with a grain of salt. WSCR wasted its money sending Rogers to Vegas b/c he hasn't come up with one interesting tidbit all week.

i'd rather have alexei at 2B and furcal at SS

I'd much rather have Dunn also. Will be only 29 next year, coming of six straight years of 40+ homers. Plus the comedic value of him playing LF.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 11, 2008 -> 11:30 AM) BTW, Kenny is going to deny this rumor. "We only have 50 cents."

General manager Ken Williams spent Wednesday watching television and conducting personnel meetings with White Sox staff members in his hotel suite. From this morning's Tribune. Don't get all feisty. It was just an observation.

well Thome will be gone in 2010.

Is Bruce Levine at the winter meetings? He was always good for some phony rumors. Haven't heard anything from him. Jesse Rogers at the SCORE is usless as a reporter.

The White Sox have the inside track on free agent outfielder Bobby Abreu, according to the New York Daily News. The Chi Sox would likely want to move Jermaine Dye first and have been in talks with the Reds to do just that. Abreu, 34, batted .296/.371/.471 last season with 20 home runs and 100 RBI. He also stole 22 bases. It's going to take at least a three-year deal to ink him. Dec. 11 - 8:39 am et Source: New York Daily News

They have too much of a Lovie fetish for me.

KW has the best job in the world and he spends the afternoon watching tv.

I think Danny Goodwin, picked #1 overall in 1971 was the worst sox pick ever. Check out the veritable suck-fest that has been White Sox 1st rounders (Larry Himes era exempted): http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?f...aft_type=junreg

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 10, 2008 -> 02:50 PM) How is Broadway a bust? c'mon. I'm not harping on the pick, but the dude has been torched for two straight years in AAA.

I think royce ring was a worse pick.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Dec 10, 2008 -> 01:58 PM) Marquez, Betemit,Nunez,Gimore, Rodriquez, Flowers Lillbridge, Nix, Viciedo. Van Bendenschoten. Am I missing somebody? That’s not nobody, my friend. Our minor league teams will definitely be improved this year.

It's interesting that NY City is the epicenter of the economic crisis, but those two teams don't seem to be cutting back.

I'd be all over Horne if his injury isn't a major one.