Guess who's making a spot start,
Lance Broadway (Lance Broadway)
To face KC and win three in a row (Lance Broadway)
He faced them last year and looked great
Six shutout innings, fanning eight
There's optimism for his return to the show (Lance Broadway)
But the worst starter on the Knights? Lance Broadway (Lance Broadway)
Looking at his splits just gives me the blues (Lance Broadway)
I'm checking out his BAA
They're hitting .326 since May
Good luck filling Jose Contreras' shoes (Lance Broadway)
I want to say he won't last too long, Lance Broadway (Lance Broadway)
Because there are plenty of scary signs (Lance Broadway)
He sat below 90 on the gunAnd he's served up too many home runs
It likely won't be too much fun for Broadway (Lance Broadway)
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But here's some great news -- the
Sox signed Gordon Beckham and his
fantastic head of hair to a $2.6 million signing bonus. It's above the suggested slot value of $2 million, but there are plenty of easy ways to for a major-league team to waste $600,000. This isn't one of them.
Beckham heads to Kannapolis in a matter of hours, which will finally give us a legitimately interesting guy to follow there.
Negotations with Jordan Danks aren't going as smoothly, which is to be expected from a seventh-round pick wanting second-round money. The fact that
the Dankses dropped Scott Boras after the Sox drafted the younger one leads me to believe something will get done, but there's a larger divide the sides are coming from.
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Chris Getz continues to
do stuff Ozzie Guillen likes. He singled in a run in his first major-league at-bat
Tuesday, then made his only hit in three at-bats count with a single on a hit-and-run in
his first start Wednesday. It moved Juan Uribe, who was hung out to dry on a handful of hit-and-runs last year, from first to third.
It's been a long time since the Sox have had a rookie who has really hit the ground running, or played over his head. So what I'm saying is, if he wants to go
Craig Wilson on us, I'm all for it.
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Ken Griffey Jr. made another "great" catch Wednesday night,
at least according to whitesox.com. By "great," it means that he ran uphill, flopped and stuck in the ground like a jart.
Two innings later, he allowed Mark Teahan to stretch a single into a double by taking forever to cut off a ball in the gap. By my count, that's the sixth time in seven games he's allowed at least one extra base out there.
Another
troubling sign:
CHICAGO -- Carlos Quentin's propensity for getting hit by pitches apparently has caught up with him -- at least for one night.
The White Sox left fielder and prime American League Most Valuable
Player candidate was scratched from Tuesday's series opener against the
Royals with general soreness in his left forearm. The decision was made
by White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, after Quentin felt the soreness
when he took some early swings during batting practice.
Time to put Griffey in a bubble before it spreads further.
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Minor league roundup:- Richmond 16, Charlotte 6
- Royce Huffman went 3-for-4 with a double, homer and four RBI.
- Who was worse:
- Franklyn German: 1 IP, 3 H, 7 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 0 K.
- Scott Sauerbeck: 1 1/3 IP, 1 H, 6 R, 2 ER, 6 BB, 0 K.
- Boone Logan threw two scoreless innings in his return to Charlotte.
- Tennessee 19, Birmingham 7
- Kyle McCulloch might have 'em beat: 4 1/3 IP, 14 H, 13 R, 11 ER, 2 BB, 0 K.
- Or Fernando Hernandez? 1 2/3 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 1 K.
- Brian Omogrosso threw a scoreless inning in his first appearance since June 17.
- Brandon Allen went 3-for-5 with a double, homer and three RBI.
- Stefan Gartrell hit a three-run homer; Victor Mercedes added a two-run shot.
- Winston-Salem 5, Wilmington 4
- John Ely's awesome run ended, but he still met the requirements for a quality start.
- Ricky Brooks (2 IP) and Matt Zaleski (1 IP) held Wilmington scoreless out of the pen.
- Freddie Thon went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
- Salvador Sanchez had two hits; Ronnie Gaines drove in two.
- Kannapolis 4, Asheville 3
- Johnnie Lowe struck out eight over eight innings, allowing three runs on nine hits.
- Mark Fleisher drove in two.
- Jorge Castillo went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
- Elizabethton 7, Bristol 4
- Kevin Dubler went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI.
- John Kateon and Juan Silverio had two hits apiece.
- Chad Dawson struck out five over 3 1/3 scoreless innings of relief.
- Great Falls 8, Idaho Falls 4
- Tyler Kuhn and Mike Grace each had two hits and two RBI.
- Kyle Shelton had two hits; Danny Jordan drove in two.
- Cody Allen allowed one run over five innings, striking out five.