I know it's mostly fluff and that Hunter has said that he would love to play for every team in the MLB, but a 5-year, $15 million dollar contract might get it done if the Sox add a sixth year team option with a decent buyout.

2.)  Garland must be traded.  I don't know what to expect in return but Garland is not worth the contract he will be expecting.  The value he could return in a trade is worth more than a year of his flaky ass.

3.)  Kenny either has to keep Crede at 3B and stick Fields in LF or trade Crede and acquire a LF'er.  I would prefer the latter since getting something for Crede is better than watching him put up another .750 OPS season and/or go down with a bad back again.

4.)  Kenny needs to sign one or two relievers.  Kenny is on the right track going the Japanese route.  They will be cheap and could be real boom value players (see Okajima).

5.)  We needed an upgrade at SS but Kenny decided to go with the status quo.  He didn't have too many options but the Tigers were able to make something happen.  Because of the lack of an upgrade at SS, upgrading LF as well as CF is pretty much mandatory now.

Thankfully, Kenny failed at the least important offseason need.  He can still redeem himself with big upgrades to CF and LF though.  We shall see what happens...

I can envision Boras holding Jones until towards the end of the free agent period, saying he's only going to talk to team willing to go $6/125. When no market materializes, he works out a mutually beneficial deal that gives Jones an incentive-laden deal that allows him to opt out after, say, 2 or 3 years. Maybe a deal that guarantees him the ability to make 5/75, but also gives hit the possibility to make 3/60 and walk away -- a JD Drew special.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jon_heyman/11/08/scoop.thursday/1.html

"Hi, my name is Kenny Williams.  I really, really like my club as is right now.  I mean, I love these guys from 2005 so much I've been handing out extensions like candy.  I don't need anything..really.  But if you totally blow me away with an offer, I might consider trading let's say Crede or Contreras or Garland or Uribe or Konerko or just about anyone on my roster for just about anything."

"With Josh Fields waiting in the wings and no longer considered a possibility in left field, Williams seems ready to make a decision.

''Something is going to have to give, one way or the other,'' he told reporters Wednesday in Orlando, Fla. ''Either via trade or if we bring them both to spring training.

''If Joe ends up winning the job, then Josh may have to go back to Triple-A. And I don't know about that after what he came up and accomplished, if that is a very fair, realistic or beneficial thing for the organization -- short-term and long- term -- to do.''

I know it's Cowley, but still...
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/642972,CST-SPT-sox09.article

Which is why Joe Torre is writing a book, due for publishing.  I believe he says the purpose of the book is to discuss how much these metrics have changed the game of baseball forever, and why there will never again be a dynasty like the Yankees.

I can't wait.

Hunter gets 6 years $90M
Rowand 4 years $56M

I know which one I'd take at those prices.

offer a pitcher ang get lastings

btw, how many more years is milledge under club control? 4 or 5?
I see 185 PAs in 2006 and 208 PAs in 2007 in the majors