3 year deal for a middle reliever that has been "meh" except for last season? Whatever, we're all-in, but I'm very interested to know what the $$ amount is.

i still would have liked guerrier but this works...

Crain carried that bullpen after the ASB last year, and easily was one of their most important players. He had some filthy stuff during that span, as he made our hitters look foolish.

I like this move, aside from 3 years.

Somebody give me some more confirmation

Umm, I'd say Gammons is pretty legit.

 

Anywho, Merkin just confirmed. Article on whitesox.com soon.

Crain carried that bullpen after the ASB last year, and easily was one of their most important players. He had some filthy stuff during that span, as he made our hitters look foolish.

 

Crain was unreal the 2nd half of last season. He was practically un-hittable. Slider from hell.

Cheap ****ers.

This is what I get for stopping in the middle of studying to check Twitter. I have a final in 15 minutes, and I've only studied for about 20 minutes so far....

 

I checked soxtalk while studying for a satanic statistics test RIGHT AFTER DUNN WAS SIGNED. I know how you feel.

 

Let's all hope this works out well. I'd hate if Crain turned out to be Linebrink 2.0.

 

But how cool would it be if he was lights out - ESPECIALLY against the twins?

Salary dump trade has to be coming next. I bet its soon.

We offered Wood a 2 yr deal as well per mlb trade rumors.

So this is how Yankees fans feel. I like it.

 

I hope we didn't get rid of Linebrink just to get another, longer version of his contract, though.

With Sale, Santos, and Crain, I'm not looking forward to hearing the phrase, dreaded leadoff walk, from Hawk all year long.

Sox lose a pick with this signing...?

I believe the answer is no, Crain is type B, so the Twins get a sandwich pick, but the Sox don't lose one.

Salary dump trade has to be coming next. I bet its soon.

hopefully it will be a benificial trade rather than just pure salary dump although merkin said this so idk

 

Apparently Kenny Williams wasn't bluffing with the following weekend comments to MLB.com: "I’m encouraged by the excitement from our fans ..

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Salary dump trade has to be coming next. I bet its soon.

Why? Just win the division and the ballpark fills up enough to pay for this.

I think it's a big addition. And the sox didn't need to trade anyone to get him.

Why? Just win the division and the ballpark fills up enough to pay for this.

Because they are above the number they want to be at and season ticket renewals were s*** this year. If a trade doesnt come soon I would be extremely surprised.

Eh, it's really hard to get excited about the signing of a middle reliever especially when we gave him 3 years, these contracts have like a 90% failure rate. But hey, at least we're trying. Gotta love that.

 

You should be glad they're trying to address a need. You can't criticize a GM for doing everything they can to try and get some certainty (even if it fails). It may work, it may not, but effort is all you can ask for.

They'll need a Crain!

 

3 year deal for a middle reliever that has been "meh" except for last season? Whatever, we're all-in, but I'm very interested to know what the $$ amount is.

I agree. Jesse Crain was a whipping boy in Minneapolis most of his career. He'll probably be the same in Chicago. He seems to alternate horrible and decent years, and horrible is up. This was one guy I was hoping KW stayed away from. But if he pitches like he did in 2010, he'll be a great addition.

You should be glad they're trying to address a need. You can't criticize a GM for doing everything they can to try and get some certainty (even if it fails). It may work, it may not, but effort is all you can ask for.

Yeah, that's exactly what I said at the end. Good on Kenny for trying to improve the team, hopefully it works out. I'm just not going to get my hopes up since I know that these types of deals rarely work out, at least in recent years. You really don't know what you're going to get from a middle reliever from year to year, though it's definitely nice when they have good stuff like Crain.

Because they are above the number they want to be at and season ticket renewals were s*** this year. If a trade doesnt come soon I would be extremely surprised.

 

KW found a taker for Teahen? Like Linebrink it would have to be with the Sox sending cash. I bet Teahen would help an NL team with his versatility.

You should be glad they're trying to address a need. You can't criticize a GM for doing everything they can to try and get some certainty (even if it fails). It may work, it may not, but effort is all you can ask for.

Effort is for kids. Results is what matters in the real world. If you owned a company had 2 salesman and one worked his ass off was a great guy etc.but couldn't sell a thing and another was a total ass, put in 5 hours a week but sold a ton, and one of them had to go, which one is it going to be? There isn't a GM in the game that doesn't put in the effort.

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Color me wrong. Good work, Kenny.

Me too, I figured we didn't have the cash for this.

 

Wow, Jesse Crain is the s***. A three year deal to a 29 year old doesn't even make me upset.

 

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