What moves have the White Sox done this off-season and will these moves make them better or worse?

Answer 1

Sign Juan Uribe to a 4.5 million, one year contract.
Looks like Uribe is our shortstop next year. Think again.

Jon Garland for Orlando Cabrera and cash.
Now we have a Gold Glove shortstop to take over for Uribe. Did we need that? No. What we needed was a quality center fielder and relief pitching. It will make us stronger, but weaker in other parts. We still could’ve won with Uribe as shortstop. He should have a breakout year one of these years. And when he is hot, he can carry a team. So we sign him and then get a shortstop to take over his job.

Sign Scott Linebrink to a 4 year, 19 million dollar contract.
Relief pitcher. Don’t you think we gave up too much for a relief pitcher??? Yes! It will surely help our below average bullpen. But he has had on and of years and could be a bust. We’ll just leave it at a question mark.

Sign Alexei Ramirez to a 4 year, 4.75 million contract.
A Cuban shortstop who can play second base and center field. Well, now we have three shortstops. What will that do? Yes, we need a center fielder but he has not proven himself as an MLB player yet. Not a very good deal for 4 years. Never know how well he’ll do in the minors. It would be better if we signed him for 2 years to see how he did.

Prospect Chris Carter for Carlos Quentin.
Won’t affect us too much. Quentin will compete for the starting left field job come Spring Training. Last year, he batted .214 with 5 homers and 31 RBI’s. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Can he fill in the hole in left field????

Release Podsednik.
One quality left fielder gone, now we have none.


Crede still looks like he could be traded for Coco Crisp or Juan Pierre. But Crisp won’t be dealt b/c he is in the Santana talks so unless the Red Sox get Santana, we will likely aim for Crisp.


But what we needed the most this off-season was a quality center fielder. Hunter we couldn’t do anything about with the Angels offering him all of that money. But Jacque Jones was open and we failed to get him. And All-Star Aaron Rowand was available and we didn’t get him. GM Kenny Williams missed many offers with center fielders. He should’ve signed one. Now he has to acquire one in a trade.



Overall, not a very successful off-season for a team that had high expectations. We can blame Kenny Williams for that.

Answer 2

Getting Orlando Cabreba really will help at shortstop but getting rid of Garland takes always from a already bad rotation. The Sox also got LF Carlos Quentin for Chris Carter I think that was probably the best deal they made because they got a major league ready outfielder with a high OBP for a power hitting first basemen with terrible defense and that struggled in the minor league.

Answer 3

the present GM,Kenny Williams, has a protracted history of pulling off loopy, wild, and unpredictable trades. i think of that the spokesperson who made that assertion is pulling our leg. in spite of each thing the Sox are paying massive money to only 4 gamers, Konerko, Dunn, Peavy, and Rios. a entire of $ fifty 9,000,000. upload in all something and their payroll is someplace close to $ one hundred thirty,000,000. it rather is a lot of dough for a center length marketplace team. I nevertheless think of that the Sox will arise with something in the event that they stay in opposition until eventually July 31.

Answer 4

Cabrera will help but they need more. Like a CF but all of the CF's out there Kenny Williams was going to have to overpay to get them. Rowand had a career year and he got a 5 year contract!

Answer 5

I believe they acquired Orlando Cabrera and i think he will help!!!

Answer 6

umm who cares thy suck look at what the cubs do