Black Sox Blog

Last week the White Sox were looking at Rafael Soriano but it looks like they opted for a lower cost option and signed Will Ohman to a two year, $4 million deal.  Ohman’s a lefty and he’s made his rounds, pitching for five different teams over his major league career.  I don’t like all of the walks, but he punches out about a guy and inning and over his career, lefties hit .208 against him.

The White Sox have thrown their share of money around this off-season.  This looks like a decent, low risk move although you wonder why they gave him a second year with it being so late in the offseason.  Still, $2 million per year isn’t all that bad and even being on the hook for $4 million over the life of the deal is small compared to a lot of the numbers being thrown around these days.

On a slightly different not, does anyone know when individual White Sox tickets go on sale.  I have some games I’d like to go to and want to buy them as early as possible.

If you’re a Sox fan, you have to be pretty happy about the offseason.  They got Paul Konerko back and slugger Adam Dunn is in the fold.  One hole though is at closer and now that Bobby Jenks is on board with the other Sox (Red Sox), the White Sox need to move on.  Apparently one of the guys they’ve been talking to is Rafael Soriano although Jon Heyman doesn’t think the White Sox have the funds left to bring him home.

Matt Thornton will probably be the closer if the White Sox don’t sign someone but Rafael Soriano would really shore up the pen.  Soriano has missed time over his career because of injuries but four of the past five seasons he’s logged at least 60 innings and last year he led the league with 45 saves and was lights out most of the year even with his strikeout rate declining.