I thought the Sox were supposed to be very active participants. Quentin, Floyd, Danks, Thornton, if those guys are all moved I would consider that active. Of course, what they get in return remains to be seen.

The issue is...and he's partially right...moving those guys does not make the White Sox better in 2012 unless some team makes a big mistake and gives up a Daniel Hudson caliber MLB ready player. That means, if the Sox are currently the 3rd best team in the division, they won't move upwards from this offseason; if anything they'd move downwards.

 

The only way the Sox are going to move upwards, frankly, is by improvement from within. The one positive there is that the Sox have enormous room for improvement from within...considering that they have 2 former all-stars who got nearly 1000 PA's and between them put up 2 of the 20 worst seasons in MLB history, a former Cy Young winner who had a terrible season, a developing rookie 3b, a struggling young 2b, and Juan Pierre...it's really not hard for this team to outproduce last year's team if they have a good offseason and someone gets them motivated.

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Don Cooper re-iterates what KW said a couple months ago in regard to Chris Sale: "Set in stone. He's a starter" #whitesox

 

ChrisRongey Chris Rongey

Don Cooper re-iterates what KW said a couple months ago in regard to Chris Sale: "Set in stone. He's a starter" #whitesox

 

 

I guess we should know that for certain now with the departure of Mark Buerhle

Rumor has it the Cards wanted him for Rasmus.

 

This would have been a disaster. Rasmus has a good start on Rios v2.0 status, IMO, and will likely soon be regarded as AA's biggest screw-up.

 

Yes, J4L, they ALL make mistakes.

This would have been a disaster. Rasmus has a good start on Rios v2.0 status, IMO, and will likely soon be regarded as AA's biggest screw-up.

 

Yes, J4L, they ALL make mistakes.

 

Toronto didn't give up much to get Rasmus.

Toronto didn't give up much to get Rasmus.

Enough to win a world series, apparently.

Enough to win a world series, apparently.

 

 

They became a fully united team when they dumped Rasmus (same argument we'd be making were we able do dump Rios on someone).

 

It was more an example of benefitting from what they lost rather than the actual personnel gain from the trade...although some of those spare parts did come together nicely in the end for the Cardinals.

 

They still might end up regretting it in the end, but hard to do that when you win the World Series, right?

They became a fully united team when they dumped Rasmus (same argument we'd be making were we able do dump Rios on someone).

 

It was more an example of benefitting from what they lost rather than the actual personnel gain from the trade...although some of those spare parts did come together nicely in the end for the Cardinals.

 

They still might end up regretting it in the end, but hard to do that when you win the World Series, right?

 

They won the World Series, and this trade directly helped them get there. They went 5-1 in games Jackson pitched in September, Rzepczynski & Dotel helped solidfy the bullpen & shut down Fielder/Braun in the NLCS. Anyone who ever regrets that trade is a moron.

They won the World Series, and this trade directly helped them get there. They went 5-1 in games Jackson pitched in September, Rzepczynski & Dotel helped solidfy the bullpen & shut down Fielder/Braun in the NLCS. Anyone who ever regrets that trade is a moron.

 

 

Kind of quiets J4L down on the AA/Rasmus front for awhile.

 

He'll have plenty of material if Stewart and Molina flame about, however.