The Chicago White Sox will be without one of their mashers next season. The White Sox have traded Carlos Quentin to the Padres for minor league pitchers Simon Castro and Pedro Hernandez.
Quentin, who will be a free agent at the end of the 2012 season, hit 24 home runs, drove in 77 runs and had a .254 batting average and .340 OBP in 118 games in 2011.
The 29-year-old Quentin is looking forward to the new opportunity that presents itself in San Diego.
“It’s exciting. First of all with the trade happening this morning, your whole life has been shifted,” Quentin said. “It will take time to set in but it’s exciting that it’s shifting to San Diego where I grew up. It’s definitely a positive to me and I look forward to contributing to the Padres.” Read more... (302 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)
Apparently, Ozzie Guillen and the Chicago White Sox are through waiting for Adam Dunn to turn his disaster of a season around.
Dunn, who is hitting .163 with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs on the season, is without question, one of the biggest free agent busts in recent memory. The White Sox signed the slugger over the offseason to a four-year, $56 million contract, but Dunn has had trouble just making contact with the ball, let alone getting it over the fence.
Now with the call up of prospect Dayan Viciedo, Dunn is finally where most White Sox fans wish he was all along: the bench. Read more... (241 words, 2 images, estimated 58 secs reading time)
The All-Star snub has become an inevitable part of the All-Star Game selection process.
Paul Konerko is well aware of this.
Despite the MVP-worthy start that he is off to this season, the Chicago White Sox first baseman still does not have an invite to the season’s All-Star Game in Arizona. But don’t expect Konerko to throw a pity party for himself. The slugger understands how these All-Star selections work, and he’s not ready to go out an campaign for his last chance at a spot on the final ballot either. Read more... (368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)
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Outside of the Anaheim Angels offseason trade for outfielder Vernon Wells, the Chicago White Sox signing of Adam Dunn is without question the biggest deal gone wrong 2011.
At the time, it seemed like a smart move: sign a high-profile slugger who has averaged 40 home runs over the last seven seasons to a four-year, $56 million contract with the hopes that he will turn into a run producing machine for your ball club.
Unfortunately, things don’t always work out the way we intend.
Dunn is batting a miserable .173 with just seven home runs and 29 RBI. Read more... (411 words, 2 images, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)
After losing three straight to the Toronto Blue Jays, and having their manager question their compete level, the Chicago White Sox have since responded by sweeping the Boston Red Sox with three straight wins at Fenway Park.
And with the way things have been going for the White Sox at home (10-13), they wouldn’t mind another series or two at Fenway. Chicago won its seventh consecutive game at the historic ballpark thanks to Paul Konerko’s late-inning heroics. The White Sox DH hit a go-ahead single in the seventh inning and a two-run homer in the ninth in a 7-4 victory for Chicago. Read more... (285 words, 1 image, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)
Everyone knows Ozzie Guillen is susceptible to blowing up when things are going well for the Chicago White Sox.
But when the team loses three straight and currently has the second worst record in the American League at 24-31, you might just want to get out of his way.
“Are (the critics) going to feel sorry because we’re going to get fired? (Heck) no,” Guillen told reporters before Sunday’s game. “They only remember us from (the World Series title in) 2005. In 2020 we’ll come here in a wheel chair all (messed) up. As soon as you leave the ballpark they don’t care about you anymore. They don’t. The monuments, the statue they got, they (urinate) on it when they’re drunk. That’s all they do. Thank you for coming, bye-bye.” Read more... (313 words, 2 images, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)
After a 10 month absence, a grueling rehab, and several setbacks, White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy will make his return to the mound on Wednesday night. He will take the hill against the team he suffered his devastating injury, the Angels.
Peavy underwent experimental surgery in July 2010 to attach the tendon that anchors the latissimus dorsi muscle to the rear of the shoulder. He then had months of intensive rehab, physical therapy, a throwing program that carried on during the dead of winter and the holidays. He took a test run of things in Spring Training. Read more... (273 words, 1 image, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)
Ubaldo Jimenez was the man who officially kicked off “The Year of the Pitcher” in 2010 when he threw the season’s first no-hitter on April 17 against the Atlanta Braves. After him, five other pitchers through no-nos of their own, including two perfect games.
That might be a hard number to match in 2011, but Minnesota Twins pitcher Francisco Liriano has already got the ball rolling with the season’s first no-hitter. Liriano, the reigning AL comeback player of the year, was backed by Jason Kubel’s fourth-inning homer in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Liriano (2-4) walked six and struck out two, throwing 123 pitches in the 95th major league start for the 27-year-old left-hander. Read more... (287 words, 2 images, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)
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