Breaking News: White Sox Come Up A Tad Short In Trade With Phillies
So much for keeping the band together. The White Sox have traded second baseman Tadahito Iguchi for a doobie. Oh, that's Mike Dubee, sorry. I do think Kenny Williams was smoking a doobie when he made this trade.I think Iguchi is worth more than an A ball pitcher, at very least he should bring you a triple A player and possibly a major league player. Sure, the guy isn't having a great year, but he is by far the most fundamentally sound player on the team. He plays great defense, is terrific on the pivot and has a long history of clutch hits. In fact, I was hoping that Kenny could work out a one-year extension with him just to keep him around.
Now weak armed, defensively challenged Alex Cintron will get the call at second until the kid they acquired from Arizona, Danny Richar arrives.
By the way, I've read that Abraham Nunez will play second for the Phils and Iguchi will rot on the bench. That is really wrong. The guy is a starter, plain and simple and it will really suck to be him when Chase Utley returns from the DL and he'll never get to play.
It is possible that the Phillies may turn Iguchi around. San Diego loaded up on young pitchers the other day when they acquired Scott Linebrink from San Diego, so it is possible that the Phils and Pods are talking, especially since the Pods had expressed an interest in Iguchi. If that's true, then Kenny Williams can be seen running down the street with his pants around his ankles.
If this is the first of several trades that break up the 2005 Sox, Kenny is going to have raise the bar drastically because this one was awful.





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