Black Sox Blog

The White Sox have definitely been busy this offseason.  First they made a big splash by signing Adam Dunn to short up their lineup.  Then they re-signed Paul Konerko.  What’s interesting about that is that it almost didn’t happen.  Apparently the White Sox were close to walking away but a day later, Konerko was back in the fold.  Three years, $37.5 isn’t a huge sum these days but for an aging and inconsistent player, we’ll see if the White Sox should have held their ground on this one.  Still, they had a hole to fill with no real alternate solution and with Dunn already there, they needed a second big bat.

A vital cog in the lineup could be Juan Pierre.  If he can get back to his old form where he hit .300+ and he gave the team a decent enough table setter, it could go a long way towards the White Sox being in the mix.  Jake Peavy coming back from his injury is another wild card as well.