so this is a pure baseball move from the point of the chisox? does that mean they don't like mccarthy as much as we've all been lead to believe.

who's chicago's fifth starter now?

Something's fishy here...Chicago sports radio has said that McCarthy didn't have a great relationship with pitching coach Don Cooper. After the Garcia trade, Cooper said it wasn't certain McCarthy would get a spot in the rotation...

This is why I'm starting to come around on Kenny Williams. He is willing to take risks to come up with more value. McCarthy is a good player and is loved in sabermetrics circles for his insane minor league numbers, but there are legit questions, not helped by his uneven turn out of the bullpen last year, about his ability to limit mistakes. He gets taken deep an awful lot.

Danks projects to be just as good as McCarthy, except with slighty more upside. He's a year younger and has no service time, whereas Brandon has a little over a year and a half.

As for Massett, he's no throw in. He's been up and down, but I think he'll at worst turn into a middle of the 'pen kinda guy. If he can turn into a league average reliever for a couple of years I'm sure the White Sox will take it, and that's not asking much at all for a guy that talented.

I like this trade for both teams, but more for the Sox because on a value basis, they got the better of it. Although I don't think the Rangers should be blamed for making a move that makes them immedietely better.

This move probably makes the Sox just slightly worse regarding their rotation in 2007, but it gives them depth, and now they can once again think about swinging Crede, Danks, and perhaps Broadway or Sweeney to the Yanks for AROD.

The White Sox have done a great job of restocking their minor league system with arms this offseason after essentially being down to scraps after the season.

I think and also hope that Haeger will get the 5th spot. He had a phenomenal September.

As much as it saddens me to see McCarthy go, Danks is supposed to be really something. But in general I think the White Sox could have gotten more for Garcia and McCarthy

McCarthy has given up well over one home run per nine innings so far in his career. That doesn't sound like the kind of pitcher you want to bring to Arlington. The Rangers really should be conscientously using their park to their advantage by focusing on groundball pitchers and flyball hitters, but generally do not.

White Sox get worse for '07 and they like it. FLOL.
they get a 22 year old minor leaguer for a 23 yr older with a year and a half of major league experience, showing in '05 that he can indeed get major league hitters out in pressure situations while the 22 yr old wasn't above AA and they are happy.
and you say us cub fans drink kool-aid.

I know, Boomer, we're so foolish. I wish I could pay Jason Marquis $7million a year for some reason!

Watching McCarthy come up and dominate against the Red Sox and Rangers was impressive, I've been excited to see him get his shot at 30 starts -- McCarthy's an Ervin Santana-type commodity, which is as good as it gets in the trade market ... Denks must be something else (Kazmir-like or better).

Yeah Nick, cuz i'm the one who paid him and you don't see me posting here trying to defend that signing. when you're a team as good as the sox, you shouldn't be trading Macarthy for a guy at least a year away.
Being the 3rd place team in their division last year and making themselves worse for the current season, doesn't sound like a good recipe for them to make it into the playoffs this season. but hey, at least they save a year of service time for a guy that hasn't reached the majors yet. You're right, Good Job KW.