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Restoring the Rosters


LittleHurt05

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NBC Sports restocked every teams rosters by placing every player with the team they originally signed with. White Sox are #25, and I think it shows how bad we have drafted but how good of a job KW has done at getting rid of our bad talent and getting the top talent from other teams. Seattle is ranked #1.

 

White Sox: http://bases.nbcsports.com/2009/08/restori...te-sox.html.php

 

Rankings: http://bases.nbcsports.com/2009/09/restori...eattle.html.php

 

The White Sox have a good chance of finishing at .500 or better for the ninth time in 10 seasons this year, but that isn't well reflected here. The sterling class of position players developed in the 90s are fading now, with Frank Thomas and Ray Durham both out of the league, and the home-grown pitchers who helped the team at the beginning of the decade, such as Mike Sirotka, Jim Parque and Kip Wells, all flamed out quickly.

 

Rotation

Mark Buehrle

Brandon McCarthy

Clayton Richard

Josh Fogg

Gio Gonzalez

 

Bullpen

Jon Rauch

Matt Guerrier

Aaron Poreda

Chad Bradford

Brendan Donnelly

Josh Rupe

Kip Wells

 

The rotation consists of an ace and four fifth starters, but at least the bullpen should be able to eat innings with Rauch, Guerrier, Poreda and Rupe. One could make a case for putting Poreda in the rotation, but I think he's a better bet as a reliever right now and he'd get a lot of work in close games as part of this group.

 

Also worthy of argument is going with Carlos Torres in the pen over Rupe or Wells. But we can let the two veterans duel it out for a month and then replace the weaker of the two.

 

Interestingly, of the seven relievers, only Wells had any sort of significant career with the White Sox. Guerrier and Rupe were dealt before reaching the majors. Donnelly's White Sox career consisted of seven starts and two relief appearances in Rookie ball in 1992. Of course, he was released several times before injecting himself onto the Angels roster in 2002.

 

Lineup

CF Mike Cameron

2B Gordon Beckham

DH Carlos Lee

LF Magglio Ordonez

SS Alexei Ramirez

RF Aaron Rowand

3B Joe Crede

1B Josh Fields

C Chris Stewart

 

Bench

OF Chris Young

OF Ryan Sweeney

INF Chris Getz

C Mark Johnson

 

Well, that's one possible lineup. Personally, I'd probably have Young in left field for the best possible outfield defense, Ordonez at DH and Lee at first base. So many of the guys have similar offensive profiles that there are a lot of different possible lineup combinations that would work. OBP is going to be a problem, of course, but it'd still be a solid group if Ordonez proves he has something left in the tank.

 

One thing that really stood out as I put all of these rosters together is that some teams seem to have a knack for developing catchers, whereas others can't come up with anyone viable. Johnson was a legitimate 80-game-per-year guy at the beginning of the decade, but he's long past his prime now, and Stewart has never been and will never be more than a No. 3 catcher.

 

Summary

 

The White Sox have had a better decade than any other team that will finish in the bottom 10 of these rankings. GM Kenny Williams deserves much of the credit thanks to a number of quality trades. However, he also should be blamed for some of the lousy drafts. His choices of reliever Royce Ring with the 18th overall pick in 2002 and upside-less right-hander Lance Broadway 15th overall in 2005 qualify as two of the worst selections of the decade. Then again, he's had a top-14 pick only once since taking over after 2000 and he scored a big hit then by landing Beckham last year.

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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 10, 2009 -> 08:05 AM)
NBC Sports restocked every teams rosters by placing every player with the team they originally signed with. White Sox are #25, and I think it shows how bad we have drafted but how good of a job KW has done at getting rid of our bad talent and getting the top talent from other teams. Seattle is ranked #1.

 

White Sox: http://bases.nbcsports.com/2009/08/restori...te-sox.html.php

 

Rankings: http://bases.nbcsports.com/2009/09/restori...eattle.html.php

 

Very interesting. :)

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