QUOTE(Disco72 @ Mar 7, 2008 -> 08:57 PM)
Good point - I admit to know remember the numbers but remembering that it was well below what he was expected to get on the market. As for the then minor leaguers, even then we knew Lee wouldn't be a major league 3B, and Crede was still years away (meaning I don't think it is comparable to the current Fields-Crede situation). Resigning Ventura would have avoided the Norton - Snopek era yet we might not have had the Milkman mini-era.
Well, Comiskey after the first season was a ghost town if you remember. The Sox would win 85-90 games and average only 15,000 a game. Reinsdorf probably didn't see the sense of losing money on the deal. It didn't really work with Albert Belle.