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SSS on the Vazquez Trade

No really, what are the White Sox doing?

I can't say for sure. The winter meetings are still a week away, and the Sox have already cut their projected '09 payroll down to the $96M range. Perhaps the economy has hit them hard. Perhaps they are embarking on the rebuilding that should have started in May of '07. Perhaps they're clearing payroll to make a run at a mystery free agent, even though they'd swear otherwise. Perhaps they're clearing room to lock up their arbitration eligible (Jenks) or soon-to-be eligible players (Q!, Danks and Floyd) and buy out a couple years of free agency, a return to the cost-certainty-era Sox. There's only one thing I can say for certain, this will not be the White Sox last move of the off-season. I'm almost expecting Dye to be dealt at the Winter Meetings, netting a young starter in return, and picking up a free-agent outfielder on the cheap as the market craters late in January. Whatever happens figures to be exciting, surprising, and should give us plenty of discussion fodder for the rest of the off-season.

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it’s almost as if they’re dismantling a “win now” team a year or two too early. maybe it’ll work out, maybe it won’t.

or maybe they realized the royals are going to win at least 150 games next and just decided to start shipping out anything that cost money.

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by doublestix on Dec 3, 2008 3:45 PM EST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Rumor on Baseball Prospectus

Is Jermaine Dye and Bobby Jenks may be heading to the Mets for a blockbuster deal involving Fernando Martinez.

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by RoyalsRetro on Dec 3, 2008 4:07 PM EST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I'm surprised the Mets would want to move Martinez

He is the one impact-caliber prospect they had after the Santana trade, and they have seemed adamant about not moving him before or since.

by DarthYoshi on Dec 3, 2008 4:27 PM EST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Depending on the totality of the haul the Chisox would get, that could be a very good trade for them

Dye is nearing the end of his career and I think his trade value exceeds his true value to a team. Jenks is an overvalued guy with a closer tag. They’d need to get another genuinely good prospect from the Mets, but that looks like a positive for the Sox.

This is just my opinion. I could easily be wrong.

by NYRoyal on Dec 3, 2008 5:10 PM EST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Kenny Williams is such an impulse buyer

the Royals should have Jose Guillen hang out at the entrance to their winter meetings suite like a pack of gum at a supermarket checkstand.

by Gopherballs on Dec 3, 2008 4:29 PM EST reply reply actions actions   0 recs

If He Wears

The wig it’s a done deal; Guillen for Dye, straight up.

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Dec 3, 2008 6:09 PM EST to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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