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Spending limits change the game in baseball draft
A year ago, some team might have made an offer that rocked Alex Young's world. The Pirates, Nationals or Red Sox, maybe even the Cubs, might have dug deep for the left-hander from Carmel High School. They still could, of course, but 2012 is definitely...
Tags: Mark Appel, Byron Buxton, Kansas City Royals, Houston Astros, Theo Epstein
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Tribune All-City team
Contact a Hollywood agent, quick. It's time for someone to do the miniseries "Trading Sori: Inside the Cubs' Quest for the Holy Grail.'' The conversations about the Alfonso Soriano situation that have taken place recently and will take place for who...
Tags: Jeff Samardzija, Ian Stewart, Houston Astros, Matt Downs, Dee Gordon
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For starters, Hahn off to a good start
Rick Hahn, executive of the year. OK, maybe not yet, but the new Chicago White Sox general manager is off to a great start. Signing Jake Peavy for only two years and a option at the going rate for a top-of-the-rotation pitcher is a great deal for...
Tags: Chris Sale, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Baseball
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The Sox are done, so Williams had better get started
It doesn’t do any good to fire Ozzie Guillen. It doesn’t do any good because he’s not to blame. The White Sox players are. Blame them. Trade them. This Sox season is o-vuh. Sox management shoved “All In,’’...Tags: Gordon Beckham, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Baseball, Will Ohman
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Sox enjoying calm, cool and collected atmosphere
Before his final year as a player with the Blue Jays in 1991, Ken Williams received advice from his manager that the career .218 hitter wishes somebody had imparted when he was closer to being a hot prospect than future executive. "I learned the valuable...
Tags: Dayan Viciedo, Jake Peavy, Twitter, Inc., Chicago White Sox, Robin Ventura
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Peavy campaign spotlights White Sox bond
With a stern voice usually reserved for stump speeches or Springfield, Gov. Pat Quinn stared into the camera and appealed to White Sox voters everywhere. "Band together in the best tradition of baseball fans and send our best, Jake Peavy, to theAll-...
Tags: Illinois Governor, Chris Sale, Yu Darvish, Awards and Prizes, Jerry Reinsdorf
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Wise's persistence pays off for Sox
Friends regularly tell Dewayne Wise he should write a book about his vagabond baseball career. And what a page-turner it would be. A small-town kid from Chapin, S.C., who turned down a football scholarship to play quarterback at South Carolina so he...
Tags: Chicago White Sox, U.S. Cellular Field, Robin Ventura, Baseball, Ichiro Suzuki
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Ventura's heart into turning around Sox
Robin Ventura leads with his heart.
That's why he was flying into home plate on that awful night in Sarasota, Fla., 15 years ago. It's why he pushed himself beyond exhaustion in his recovery from an ankle damaged so bad it would ultimately require a rare...Tags: Chris Sale, John Danks, Jerry Reinsdorf, Gordon Beckham, Chicago Cubs
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Bulls 'veteran' GM expects team to be pleasant surprise to many
With a nervous chuckle, the most experienced general manager among Chicago's five major professional sports teams pondered his new distinction. Promoted by the Bulls in May 2009 two months before the Blackhawks elevated Stan Bowman, Gar Forman became...
Tags: Chicago Bulls, Chicago White Sox, NBA Finals, Tom Thibodeau, Nate Robinson
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Sox must make tough calls on veteran pitchers
The bad news has come in for Gavin Floyd, just like it did for John Danks last August. Floyd will have season-ending elbow surgery Tuesday, meaning the White Sox will get no more return on the $9.5 million they’ll pay Floyd this season, just as...
Tags: Dylan Axelrod, Jake Peavy, John Danks, Hector Santiago, Chicago White Sox
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Keppinger addition no home run, but he's what White Sox need
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — As a Class A second baseman in 2002, Jeff Keppinger swung for the fences in the home run derby at the South Atlantic League All-Star Game against the likes of promising sluggers Ryan Howard and Jose Bautista. This is who...
Tags: U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago White Sox, Jeff Keppinger, Baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates
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Dunn puts White Sox on his back
Adam Dunn couldn't stop smiling. He was floating, levitating almost, as he talked about how all the years of his baseball career — including one of the longest seasons anyone has ever had — had led to two swings of his bat Monday night. In a...
Tags: Kansas City Royals, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chicago White Sox, U.S. Cellular Field, Justin Masterson
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