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Baseball Musings
June 27, 2007
Buehrle to Stay

The White Sox appear to be keeping Mark Buehrle:

Right when the trade talks were heating up for LHP Mark Buehrle, the White Sox found seller's remorse. Call it a reality check. Last winter the Sox started putting themselves in position to rebuild the rotation, dealing Freddy Garcia to Philadelphia for Gavin Floyd and Gio Gonzalez. Then the Sox sent one of their own young arms, Brandon McCarthy, to Texas for pitchers John Danks, already in the rotation, and Nick Massett, already in the bullpen.

So the Sox came to the reality that before they did anything rash they needed to reassess Buehrle's status in Chicago, and reopen talks. While he turned down a three-year, $30 million extension a year ago the reality set in that if he is really serious about a five-year, $75 million deal, similar to what Roy Oswalt got in Houston, the Sox at least owed him a serious conversation.

This makes sense to me. Good starting pitching is tough to come by. Why trade away your best pitcher when you can get pretty good value for your second line pitching? We'll see if they can actually make a deal, but this is the right move for the White Sox.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:12 AM | Trades | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I suspect this move has been facilitated by the Mets' interest in Contreras and the rumored interest in Vasquez.

Posted by: Scott Janssens at June 27, 2007 10:53 AM

ESPN 1000 - WMVP-AM - Chicago is reporting that this is a BS rumor.

The Sox officially say:

"There's no official announcement, anything else is speculation."

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070627&content_id=2052136&vkey=news_cws&fext=.jsp&c_id=cws

Posted by: Steven Andrew Miller at June 27, 2007 02:09 PM
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