Wednesday, December 14, 2005

White Sox Wisdom?

Ken Williams, the White Sox GM, put together a rotation last year that had the most impressive starting pitching run in the postseason in the last 30 years, with Contreras, Garcia, Buehrle, and Garland throwing all but 2/3 of an inning in the entire series against the Angels, and following it up with an excellent Series as well. Based on that, why would he trade El Duque, a great 5th starter and clutch pitcher extraordinaire, for another starter, Javier Vazquez. They also had to give up a reliever and an outfield prospect to get Vazquez. From the outside, this looks like a bad move in which he is tinkering with a good thing (ask Theo Epstein how that works out!) and does not get back much of an advantage in return. He also traded a gold glove center fielder for an aging, broken down Jim Thome to DH for him, another questionable move, especially since he made the Phillies GM look good with that one. But Williams made every right move last year, so he deserves the benefit of the doubt...for now.

2 Comments:

At 2:17 PM, Blogger Uncle C said...

Why would he trade El Duque? Gee, I don't know . . . . Maybe it's because El Duque is 70 years old.

 
At 5:39 PM, Blogger Justin L said...

thank you, as a huge sox fan forever i would like to say that ken williams is amazing, his decision to not sign mags even with the overwhelming pressure of sox fans went well, getting thome allowed us to sign konerko and now you have a righty hitting third, dye, a lefty second, thome, and another righty, konerko. konerko got a bit tired at times last year and instead of having a player with no experience play first (timo perez) you have an actual first baseman. El duque says hes 34, i bet u hes older than 40, and vizcaino sucked in chicago, sure we gave up an outfield prospect boo hoo, now we only have two with brian anderson and another guy in his young twenty's, kenny williams no question deserves benefit of the doubt. (and by the way, want a good 5th starter, try opn brandon mccarthy a 20 year old guy who would be at least the 4th starter for many teams)

 

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