So I hit one of my favorite websites, mlbtraderumors.com, and they gave me a little White Sox fix. There's some interesting nuggets in the past couple days about the White Sox attempts to land Cliff Lee. Essentially any deal the White Sox would have struck with Seattle would have involved giving up Gordon Beckham - which I'm very glad the White Sox are unwilling to part with Beckham, as I'm loathe to acquire pitchers over 30 years old, and I don't believe Beckham is this bad a ball player.
In terms of the other options the Sox have to try and land, Roy Oswalt is the first name on the list, but it seems both the Sox and Oswalt don't really want each other since Kenny Williams said he's reluctant to get pitchers from the National League (Funny how he didn't feel that way a year ago when he traded for Jake Peavy...), and Oswalt has said he would veto any trade to the Sox. That's fine with The Beard. The one name that I REALLY hope doesn't come up in Zambrano. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want Zambrano because he's a lunatic - even though that would be more that enough. The main reason I don't want him is quite simply put, he's just not that good anymore.
As for the Dan Haren, Ben Sheets, or Jeremy Guthrie's of the world....YAWN. I'd rather take a chance on any minor league pitchers other teams don't have a scouting report on yet.
Man it's nice to be "buyers" again...
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