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White Sox Add Andruw Jones to Crowded Veteran Bench
The White Sox seem to be going about their off-season in reverse. They're lining up their bench pieces to a team that still lacks two (or three) legitimate full-time major league position players. Today, they've reportedly signed Andruw Jones to a 1-year, $500K incentive-laden deal to fill out the...
Who's Offered Brandon Lyon a Contract?
In this morning's Detroit News, Lynn Henning reported that the Detroit Tigers and Brandon Lyon have "mutual interest" in each other, and the two sides should discuss a contract offer within the next day or two. With a closer's job to offer, the Tigers would appear to be the front-runner for his...
Is Orlando Hudson a potential solution at SS?
Nico made an intriguing suggestion the other day at the bottom of EddieVegas_NRAF's The bottom of the shortstop barrel post: that the A's should explore signing free-agent second baseman Orlando Hudson, and convert him to shortstop. WaddellCanseco did some yeoman basic research in that exchange...
Daniel Cabrera Is Gonna Cost More Than $1
According to Ken Rosenthal, Daniel Cabrera's agent received 5 calls from teams in the first 30 minutes after Cabrera became a free agent early Saturday morning . Meanwhile, some Schmuck from the Baltimore Sun notes that Cabrera's agent has been contacted by 11 teams including one which has already...
Should the A's be pursuing Teixeira?
So, this morning's news is that the Slegna have apparently succumbed to temptation, collapsed on their previous reluctance to go above 6 or 7 years, and made an 8-year, $160 million offer to Mark Teixeira. Even before this news, I was starting to think thnat the A's should be going after Teixeira;...
What Do We Know About the Impending Viciedo Signing?
Dayan Viciedo was supposed to be introduced as the newest member of the White Sox in a press conference on Friday, but apparently visa issues--there's always visa issues--may have derailed the event, though not the signing itself. The terms of the contract are as of yet unknown, but Phil Rogers put...
Two Shortstops Pass in the Night
"White Sox fans are really gonna take to this guy." That was Kenny Williams (roughly, from memory) during the spring of '04 sitting in with Hawk and DJ in the TV booth of a spring training game. The player to whom he was referring was Juan Uribe. "As long as he stays back," Williams...
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