White Sox sign Dan Johnson to minor league deal
by larry on Feb 1, 2012 1:10 PM CST
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Former Oakland Athletic and Tampa Bay Ray Dan Johnson will be signing a minor league deal with the White Sox, likely with an invitation to major league camp at spring training. The lefty-hitting first baseman has spent the majority of the last few seasons in AAA and also had a stint in Japan in 2009.
Johnson may be most familiar to fans as the guy who hit the dramatic bottom of the ninth inning, two out home run against the Yankees in the final day of the 2011 regular season that sent that game to extra innings. The Rays eventually won the game and dumped the Red Sox from the playoffs.
With a career line of .235/.334/.405, Johnson is pretty much the definition of a replacement level player. And with Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn inhabiting the roster, barring significant injuries, Johnson is unlikely to see the major league roster.
He appears to be destined to fill the mashing slugger role for the Charlotte Knights, something he has done for Sacramento and Durham over seven seasons resulting in a career AAA line of .301/.413/.543. He should make for a fearsome middle of the order with Dallas McPherson. And, maybe, like McPherson did last season, he'll manage to get a cup of coffee at some point in 2012.
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This is excellent.
Great shot (with an injury/benching) of another negative WAR player! Genius! And timely in light of today’s Margalus/larry-inspired post.
We're all here because we're not all there.
Too bad it wasn't Nick Johnson or Walter's corpse!
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
His other homer last year?
A walk-off against Matt Thornton, which gave the Rays their first victory after starting 0-6.
It wasn't a walk-off; it was at the Cell.
"That baseball is the smartest thing out on that field." —Hawk Harrelson
The median team has gone 21.5 years without a World Series title. Depressed yet?
All 3-run HR hit against the 2011 White Sox were walkoffs
by WSO on Feb 1, 2012 2:25 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Too true. Too true.
It’s taken years of practice to be such an asshole.
by Chiburb on Jun 1, 2010 10:35 AM PDT
TTJ.
We're all here because we're not all there.
by winningugly on Feb 2, 2012 6:48 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
RWShow, TP, SSE and I were all there that night and that was the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end
That night also featured a Teahan HR, GB’s best game of the year and Juan Pierre’s first inexplicable errrrrror in LF to put Thornton in a situation for a blown save.
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
Having also been there,
I believe that may also have been the debut of Thornton’s short-lived “Crystal Pepsi ball,” because I certainly was confused as to how exactly the shit he decided to go after Dan Johnson with something traveling 90 mph that didn’t move.
I was confused the whole game having arrived at Schaller's Pump at 2pm for a 7pm game
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
Someone choked down the chicken
and I was not involved
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
I could live with his career line in an emergency..
Good fodder. In the past the White Sox would have paid a million dollars for this.
"Rooting for the Twins is just a roundabout way of rooting for a first-round playoff bye for the Yankees." by big_fun
by Tdogg on Feb 1, 2012 2:37 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
I read at MLBroomers that this was the first head-to-head fight between KW and Ventura
Ventura yelled “I want D. Johnson!!!”
and JR responded, looking at KW,
“Pull the f—-’in trigger.”
White Sox 2012: Helplessly rebuilding?
Yeah, but that's only cause KW is firmly in
the Dan O’Brien camp. JR just got things a bit confused.
by South Side Expat on Feb 1, 2012 2:56 PM CST up reply actions
Would it be safe to say that a "season is in the toilet" warning sign would be the mid-season appearance of Johnson or Struts?
White Sox 2012: Helplessly rebuilding?
even if the season were in the toilet
dan johnson is rather unlikely to be appearing. he really was signed to hit balls really far in the international league. they’d probably call up jim gallagher before him.
Counterstrike!
Bam!. Take that, Tigers.
by son_of_sophist on Feb 1, 2012 4:04 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
HA!...love it.
For 2012 season: ALEX RIOS is my new TONY PENA.
by JofpGallagher on Feb 1, 2012 6:15 PM CST up reply actions
mlb execs compare Yo Knows to young CFers
Its an insider, but they rank him higher than Rasmus, Stubbs and BJ Upton… even with Chris Young and behind Adam Jones
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
Yoenis Cespedes odds are
What would you make the odds of us actually landing Cespedes at this point? 8 to 1? 10 to 1? 20 to 1?
by THE_CELEBRATOR on Feb 1, 2012 6:00 PM CST up reply actions
80 to 1
He is gonna have money thrown at him by the Marlins
This. Cubano and all.
"People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage."
John Kenneth Galbraith
by Chiburb on Feb 1, 2012 6:28 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Can't wait for Hawk to call him "yo-anus".
by FlyingSpaghettiMonster on Feb 1, 2012 7:33 PM CST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
Who is going to opening day?
I got tickets today off the hub with a gift cert I have. I’m sure several of us will be there?
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
Home opening day or Texas opening day?
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"
Nice. We'll probably be in section 107 again unless the group I go with
got bumped up a bit.
by South Side Expat on Feb 2, 2012 12:15 AM CST up reply actions
I'll for sure be at The Cell opener.
Still working on the Texas one.
by South Side Expat on Feb 1, 2012 7:47 PM CST up reply actions
We shall triumphantly celebrate together
Don was going to come with but then he remembered that his second child is due on the 16th of April.
It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity
i'll be there 536
the texas one is going to be a tough swing this year.
Kenwo4life=ratings. Just call me Mr. USA Today.
Well at least we found someone that could bat for a lower average than Dunn.
Now we have someone else to pick on.
KW
“Go ahead and laugh. Just like you laughed at the Geoff Blum trade. We’ll see who’s laughing in October. BWAHAHAHAHA!”
by ParisSox on Feb 1, 2012 8:27 PM CST via mobile reply actions
"dammit, kenny. i said lance."
Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
by MarketMaker on Feb 2, 2012 2:52 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
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