2025 White Sox GM: Garrett Guest
by The Cheat on Dec 20, 2005 3:27 PM CST
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Print- Check out this interview with White Sox minor leaguer Garrett Guest. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see him climbing the ranks of the White Sox front office in the relatively near future.
- Art Thiel of the Seattle Post Intelligencer is not too happy about the M's signing of Jarrod Washburn just 18 months after they kicked Freddy Garcia to the curb. -- I post this just as cautionary tale. We could find ourselves in this very position with respect to Jon Garland in a year or two.
- Harry Caray's Restaurant bought the bat that made the final out of the 2005 World Series. They plan to display it prominently at the restraunt where balls are blown up then made into sauce. [World Series Bat Auction]
- I can't really figure out the major trade that went down today. It seems to me that Young and Eaton are relatively equal pitchers, but Eaton is due to make about 10 times what Young will. It looks to me like Texas traded and outfielder and a top prospect for a good reliever, a lesser prospect, and the right to spend more money. I doubt this helps their chances of signing Millwood or trading for Garland.
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As far as feeling the same about losing Garland as Seattle did about Freddy, I don't really see it. At the time the Mariners traded Garcia he had gone 72-43 with about 4.00 ERA. Garland has an ERA half a run higher and basically a .500 record. Yes he just had a terrific year, but someone is going to get left holding the bag on him and I hope it's not us. Seattle's grief over the Garcia/Washburn comparison is also misplaced because the two are very different pitchers. Washburn is more a Jamie Moyer-type, which is what the M's are probably thinking in signing him. That's certainly worth $10 mil a year if it happens, and there's enough reason to think it will.
Terrible trade by the Rangers for Eaton. Even the reliver they got is likely going to get hurt in the AL. Hey if they're willing to make dumb trades, I'm sure we can fetch a pretty load from them for Garland.
by WestSideSoxFan on Dec 20, 2005 7:05 PM CST reply actions
Any non-tender candidates?
Anyone who the Sox might be looking at? If the Sox go through with the trade of Jon Garland, I'd recommend (for the second offseason in a row) Wade Miller.
Why? Potential, mainly, but I like the idea of having a swingman/sixth starter on the big league club, and I'm not too fond of the other option that has been brought up in some of the articles I've seen (Sean Tracey).
Plus, if Coop is able to get Miller back to his 2001-2004 form, then you have a pretty cheap pitcher who's pretty damn good. He wasn't great for Boston, but he wasn't awful -- 89 ERA+ in 90 IP, so pretty much like El Duque, except that Miller is a helluva lot younger and had some filthy stuff before his injury.
I doubt they're looking towards Miller, but I think it's a risk worth thinking about.
Anybody want Chad Bradford back? I'm just kidding -- I'm not a huge fan of guys who are OOGY's.
Oh, one more...
If he came for something like $1 million bucks -- well, it's better than giving that money to Timo.
What's the Sox bench looking like, anyways? Mackowiak, Widger, Ozuna... who else? If it were me, I'd go with Gload and Harris, but it looks like Harris is going to be non-tendered. Gload should definitely make the roster, just 'cause of his bat, but we know how that went last year.
I called that one in August
Merry Christmas, Jim Hendry
by WestSideSoxFan on Dec 21, 2005 11:06 AM CST reply actions
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