MeanFish
01-06-2007, 10:20 AM
Link to article:
http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove06/insider/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=2721190&CMP=ILC-INHEAD
Yeah, I know it's an Insider article so the link isn't accessible to most. However, he has some kind words for the way K-Dub (Hey, Brandon's gone so we have to pass the first-initial-dash-part-of-past-name-torch, right!?) has responded to the inflated price of established mediocre MLB pitching.
From the article:
Interestingly enough, just a few miles from Wrigley Field, White Sox GM Kenny Williams seems to have figured all this out. He has been castigated in Chicago for trading Freddy Garcia (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6168) and Brandon McCarthy (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=7484) for pitchers with no track records (or lousy track records) in the majors, but Williams apparently believes that if he collects enough young pitchers with potential, he'll wind up with a few cheap-but-good starters, and at the moment there's nothing more valuable.
I know this subject has been beaten into the ground, covered with dirt and perhaps has a garden planted on top of it already. With the vast quantities of negative articles that have been mentioned here regarding this subject, however, I thought it would be nice to bring attention to an article that supports what the Sox are doing versus the insanity that other clubs are partaking in.
:cool:
http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove06/insider/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=2721190&CMP=ILC-INHEAD
Yeah, I know it's an Insider article so the link isn't accessible to most. However, he has some kind words for the way K-Dub (Hey, Brandon's gone so we have to pass the first-initial-dash-part-of-past-name-torch, right!?) has responded to the inflated price of established mediocre MLB pitching.
From the article:
Interestingly enough, just a few miles from Wrigley Field, White Sox GM Kenny Williams seems to have figured all this out. He has been castigated in Chicago for trading Freddy Garcia (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6168) and Brandon McCarthy (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=7484) for pitchers with no track records (or lousy track records) in the majors, but Williams apparently believes that if he collects enough young pitchers with potential, he'll wind up with a few cheap-but-good starters, and at the moment there's nothing more valuable.
I know this subject has been beaten into the ground, covered with dirt and perhaps has a garden planted on top of it already. With the vast quantities of negative articles that have been mentioned here regarding this subject, however, I thought it would be nice to bring attention to an article that supports what the Sox are doing versus the insanity that other clubs are partaking in.
:cool: