Bartolo Colon was a member of the Chicago White Sox back in 2003 and now he will be a member of the White Sox in 2009. Colon and the White Sox agreed on a one-year contract for $1million dollars. Colon can earn up to $2 million depending on how many innings he pitches.

Colon has not pitched that great in the past two seasons while he was with the Los Angeles Angels, however the Sox are hoping he can stay healthy and turn things around in 09. In the two previous seasons for the Angels, Colon had a 7-13 combined record in 28 total starts, with a dismal 5.90 ERA.

I like the signing as the upside is huge for the Sox. $1 million for Colon is a steal in my opinion!

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The Chicago White Sox and Atlanta Braves have officially completed a six player deal that was first talked about earlier in the week. The White Sox will be sending starting pitcher Javier Vazquez and relief pitcher Boone Logan to the Braves in exchange for shortstop Brent Lillibridge, catcher Tyler Flowers, left-handed pitcher Santos Rodriguez and third baseman Jon Gilmore.

The highlight of this deal for the White Sox is shortstop Brent Lillibridge who is a pretty good prospect even though he struggled last year in Triple-A Richmond while he hit just .220 with a .294 on-base percentage in 90 games. He has been successful in 127 of his 162 stolen-base attempts at the Minor League level.

Flowers caught Cox’s attention during Spring Training, and certainly wowed some scouts with the power he showed while playing in the AFL this year.

While playing for Advanced Class A Myrtle Beach this season, Flowers hit .288 with 17 homers and a .498 slugging percentage. Although he has the offensive tools to succeed, scouts have said that he needs to make great strides from a defensive standpoint to be serviceable as a catcher at the Major League level.

Gilmore, a 20-year-old third baseman, hit .186 in 27 games with Class A Rome this season. While with Rookie Level Danville in 2007, he hit .337 with four homers and a .473 slugging percentage.

Rodriguez, a 20-year-old left-handed pitcher, went 1-2 with a 2.79 ERA in 14 relief appearances for the Gulf Coast League Braves this year. In 29 innings, he recorded 45 strikeouts and issued 13 walks.

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The Chicago White Sox packed Nick Swisher’s bags for him on Thursday as they shipped him off to the New York Yankees in exchange for three players. The White Sox will be getting infielder Wilson Betemit and minor league pitchers Jeff Marquez and Jhonny Nunez. Besides Swisher going to New York, minor league pitcher Kanekoa Texeira will also be going along in the trade to the Yankees.

Swisher hit .219 with 24 home runs in 153 games with Chicago this season but never really got into a grove like they White Sox had hoped when they got him from the Oakland A’s.

Marquez, was a supplemental first-round draft pick by the Yankees out of Sacramento City College in 2004. He posted a 43-40 record and a 3.60 ERA in five minor league seasons with New York.

Texeira was 6-3 with 21 saves and a 1.33 ERA in 51 combined relief appearances with Class A Winston-Salem and Double-A Birmingham, ranking second among White Sox minor leaguers in saves. Betemit hit .265 with 13 doubles, six home runs and 25 RBI in 87 games with the Yankees in 2008, making starts at all four infield positions.

Betemit hit .265 with 13 doubles, six home runs and 25 RBI in 87 games with the Yankees in 2008, making starts at all four infield positions.

Overall I like this trade for the Sox as they picked up three decent players. Betemit can play right now for the Sox and probably put up similiar numbers that Swisher did and the Sox dumped his huge contract off onto the Yankees.

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The Chicago White Sox and Ken Griffey Jr. are parting ways after the White Sox declined his option for the 2009 season. The White Sox will now have to pay Griffey Jr. two million while the Reds pick up the other two million. The White Sox want to go a little younger in the outfield so they didn’t need to bring back Griffey.

One team rumored to be very interested in Griffey Jr. is the Atlanta Braves. We will have to see if anything happens there.

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The Chicago White Sox have optioned five players to the minor leagues, waived one player, and reassigned 6 players to their minor league camp.

Carlos Vasquez was waived

Lance Broadway, Dewon Day, Charlie Haeger, and Oneli Perez optioned to Triple-A Charlotte

Lucas Harrell was sent to Double-A Birmingham

Chris Getz, Royce Huffman, Jeff Liefer, Miguel Negron, Mike Rouse, and Ryan Smith were all reassigned to the White Sox minor league camp.

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The Chicago White Sox have traded relief pitcher David Aardsma to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for a couple of minor league pitchers.  I don’t think Aardsma had much a future with the White Sox and they figured it was worth the risk to trade him to the Red Sox for two younger pitchers.

Willy Moto who is a converted outfielder and Miguel Socolovich will be coming over to the White Sox.  Both players will be expected to contribute at the minor league level in 2008 but could possibly get a look at in spring training.

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On Friday the Chicago White Sox announced that they signed relief pitcher Octavio Dotel to a two year contract worth $11 million dollars.  That is quite a bit of money if you ask me for someone who has only pitched 30 innings since 2004!  Talk about earning your money lol!

What do all the White Sox fans think?  You agree with spending $11 million on Dotel when there were possibly some other options out there that you could have probably got in a Joe Crede trade.

 ***Quick Update:  Dotel’s agent is saying the deal isn’t finalized and there are five other teams in the running for Octavio.  We will keep you updated.***

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Joe Crede signed a one year contract with the Chicago White Sox on Thursday for $5.1 million dollars!  That is a nice little payday for Crede even though he could possibly get traded during spring training.  Will another team take on that contract is another question…

I would love for Crede to come out and have a great spring training and stay with the White Sox, but I just don’t know if that will happen.  There have been rumors about Crede being traded, but as of now he is a member of the White Sox, so we are hoping for the best with him.

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General Manager Ken Williams announced this afternoon that the Chicago White Sox have traded for Nick Swisher from the Oakland Athletics.  The White Sox will be sending Gio Gonzalez, Fautino De Los Santos, and Ryan Sweeney to the Athletics for Swisher.

Swisher batted .262 with 22 homers and 78 RBIs in 150 games in 2007, his third full big league season. He also drew 100 walks, ranking him sixth in the AL, for a career-best .381 on-base percentage.

While I’m sad to part ways with Gio Gonzalez, this is a pretty good pickup for the White Sox.  Swisher will bring a little swagger to the clubhouse and that is something the White Sox could really use.  Wonder how Swisher and A.J. will get along lol!

What do you all think?  Is trading Nick Swisher a good move for the team at this point?  Did the White Sox give up too much for him?