Needs for next year

[sayitaintso]

Lyle Overbay will hopefully be wearing a White Sox uni next year.

He's a streaky hitter with average power too. He would fit right in.

[mr_genius]

Lyle Overbay will hopefully be wearing a White Sox uni next year.

 

He's not a free agent

 

also, whats with the whole Overbay obsession (it's not just you)? He's good, but not that good. I don't think Milwaukee will just give him to us for some low level prospects.

[MinnySoxFan]

How about bringing in Torii? Him and AJ, back together again.

[greasywheels121]

How about bringing in Torii?  Him and AJ, back together again.

 

It'd have to be done via trade. Not gonna happen.

[fathom]

- get a number 3 hitter

- get rid of either Pods or Rowand

- acquire a superstar!

[Ozzie Montana]

We can start off by cutting Blum's ass.

[Cloudyguy09]

i cant believe u all want rowand gone hes had some clutch hits and besides a few games hes been great defensively

[Buehrle>Wood]

i cant believe u all want rowand gone hes had some clutch hits and besides a few games hes been great defensively

Meh.

[nitetrain8601]

Better offense and a new manager. Since the site began, I can't think of a time in which pitching wasn't mentioned up until now. That's good, but we have glaring holes on offense.

 

Problem is that all the decent worthwhile FA's that are available play positions that are already good enough on this team. I mean Bengie will be getting alot more than AJ and I also think AJ is a much better game caller than Bengie.

 

Crede has the best glove that's available to us. He saves Mark and Jon a lot of runs. Plus his offense seems like it's coming around as long as he keeps his current stance. He's a 9 hitter anyway. Ask the Yanks if they would like that type of production out of their 9 hitter and they would love it.

 

Uribe is a necessity at short. Only because of his strong arm. He's very streaky and I think he should be a platoon player if we do go look at SS.

 

Giles is the only real option. Especially since Pods doesn't steal bases anymore. Pods is as useful as Willie right now. He better learn how to steal or he should be traded and room should be made for Giles. We need to desperately do something with that DH spot though. Either Frank or some massive power hitter via trade.

[Ozzie Montana]

for Crede to carry over this month's play into all of next year.

[Buehrle>Wood]

Offensively speaking, the only 3 who should be guaranteed spots next year are AJP, Uribe, Gooch and Dye. The other 5 are not and should not be safe.

[SoxFanForever]

Better offense and a new manager. Since the site began, I can't think of a time in which pitching wasn't mentioned up until now. That's good, but we have glaring holes on offense.

 

Problem is that all the decent worthwhile FA's that are available play positions that are already good enough on this team. I mean Bengie will be getting alot more than AJ and I also think AJ is a much better game caller than Bengie.

 

Crede has the best glove that's available to us. He saves Mark and Jon a lot of runs. Plus his offense seems like it's coming around as long as he keeps his current stance. He's a 9 hitter anyway. Ask the Yanks if they would like that type of production out of their 9 hitter and they would love it.

 

Uribe is a necessity at short. Only because of his strong arm. He's very streaky and I think he should be a platoon player if we do go look at SS.

 

Giles is the only real option. Especially since Pods doesn't steal bases anymore. Pods is as useful as Willie right now. He better learn how to steal or he should be traded and room should be made for Giles. We need to desperately do something with that DH spot though. Either Frank or some massive power hitter via trade.

Sadly, I don't think Frank has much if anything left in the tank. We already relied on him making a comeback once to save our offense and it bit us in the ass. Lets not do it again.

[greasywheels121]

Offensively speaking, the only 3 who should be guaranteed spots next year are (1) AJP, (2) Uribe, (3) Gooch and (4) Dye. The other 5 are not and should not be  safe.

 

 

[Buehrle>Wood]

[Rex Kickass]

I think a reconstruction may be in order. Building the team around AJ, Pods (if healthy - he's a freakin sparkplug), Iguchi. We need to find that balance between power and speed that we seemed to have for the first half of the season. If I was smarter, I could tell you who we should have.

 

Pitching is good, Send El Duque back to Cuba and keep B-Mac in that 5th spot. Transition Jenks to a full time closer's role.

[Frankensteiner]

I said in the game thread, the 4 guys in the line-up I would be looking to replace are Rowand, Crede, Everett, and Pods

 

I really don't have a problem with Pods at all. He's easily one of the top 5 leadoff hitters in the entire league. Problem is that he plays a position traditionally reserved for a power bat, so you either have to find a power bat for a defensive position (SS, 2B, CF, C) or bite the bullet and move him to CF. I agree with the rest.

[Ozzie Montana]

I agree with you about getting rid of Hernandez. We gotta give BMAC a spot in the rotation.

[gosox41]

What do you guys think this team needs next season to be successful?

 

 

I can tell you what they don't need. Guys like Perez and Blum who are career nothings. Why waste money on these guys? Anderson could have grounded in to a 1-2-3 DP with the bases loaded. And Mr Clutch, Timo, has about 18 RBI's all year.

 

What did Gload do to piss off Ozzie?

 

 

Bob

[Frankensteiner]

Brian Giles is a good idea. But with PK in line for a fat contract, I doubt we'd give out two huge contracts like that in the same winter. Still, replace Everett with Giles and you have a much better looking line-up.

[mr_genius]

But with PK in line for a fat contract

 

atleast a 9-11 million per year contract. thats a lot of loot, but we need him.

[C_LEE45]

Rowand

 

 

i think we need to upgrade in CF he mis-plays way to many balls granted he makes nice plays and gives 100% no doubt but mis played ALOT and his bat is nothing like last year ,what does everybody think could it be possable he was on roids? i think a good POWER hitting CF and use rowand as a bench player ,sign KONERKO and add a good DH and furcal and then have Uribe and Crede share 3rd base

[TaylorStSox]

My ideal line up... (probably never going to happen)

 

Pods/Pierre

Iguchi

Giles

Delgado

Konerko

Dye

Crede

AJ

Uribe

[Buehrle>Wood]

Rowand

i think we need to upgrade in CF he mis-plays way to many balls granted he makes nice plays and gives 100% no doubt but mis played ALOT and his bat is nothing like last year ,what does everybody think could it be possable he was on roids? i think a good POWER hitting CF and use rowand as a bench player ,sign KONERKO and add a good DH and furcal and then have Uribe and Crede share 3rd base

Keeping Uribe at SS is a must.

[C_LEE45]

Mine is

 

PodsCF

Furcal SS

Giles Dh

Konerko 1b

Dye RF

AJ C

Iguchi 2nd

Anderson LF

Crede 3rd

 

bench uribe ,rowand.ozuna,widger

 

pitching

 

Buerhle

Garcia

count

Garland

BMACK

[Rex Kickass]

Juan Pierre would be awesome in my ideal lineup. I like the idea of Griffey DH'ing if we really need the bat. Otherwise I'd love to have the DH be someone that we could use on the field other days.