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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Los Angeles Angels and Chicago White Sox headed for a deal?

The California Angeles seem to covet certain Chicago White Sox players such as Paul Konerko and Jermaine Dye. The Chicago White Sox covet Chone Figgins. Konerko almost signed with the Angels a couple of years back but instead re-signed with the Chicago White Sox. Would either team do a straight up deal, Figgins for either Dye or Konerko?

If Kendry Morales is going to play first base for the Angels, would they really want to put Konerko at DH and bottle up Vlad from taking a break in the outfield by DH'ing? Vlad prefers to play the outfield but the Angels benefited last year by using the DH to both "rest and play" their older vets.

Angel players such as Garret Anderson, Vlad Guerrero, Tori Hunter, Gary Matthews jr., all benefited by DH'ing when their nagging injuries didn't justify playing them in the field. If Konerko becomes the Angels DH, that DH carousel option is taken away from the Angels, plus they lose the versatility of a Chone Figgins as well.

Ozzie Guillen probably sees Chone Figgins as the ideal replacement to Scott Posednik, who helped the White Sox the year they won the World Series. It will be interesting to see if these two teams do more than talk, and what the final trade becomes.

2 comments:

Frank Tormey said...

My source hasn't heard anything yet about a possible trade with the Angels.

If anything is going to happen, I'll hopefully post it on my site.

Thanks for reading!

CoolerHead said...

To clarify, SoxFan84 has a blog called I'm not Ozzie and broke the Bartolo Colon signing several days before anyone else, even though I'm not Ozzie was never credited with breaking the story first.