Ballbug (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Joe Cowley / Chicago Sun Times : Sox focus on Cuban 3B Dayan Viciedo — MLB gives green light for teams to make offers to Viciedo — The White Sox are poised to put the Joe Crede era behind them and become players in the first big acquisition of the offseason. — Agent Jaime Torres was informed by Major League Baseball …
Ballbug (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Joe Cowley / Chicago Sun Times : Vazquez has role as Sox trade bait — Right-hander Javier Vazquez had stood by his locker during the final days of the White Sox' postseason collapse, answering the same question over and over again without a hint of emotion or a sign of hesitation. — Did he want to be traded? — “No,” Vazquez said.
South Side Sox (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
First, Dayan Viciedo was the Cuba's Best Teen Talent and referred to as the Cuban Babe Ruth in some circles, which might have been a compliment if it wasn't first applied to Jose Canseco. I noted that Joe Cowley's scoop seemed to come straight from Viciedo's agent, Jaime Torres. Then a day later, Phil Rogers tried to pour cold water on the hype , with his own anti-hype courtesy of a Cuban baseball...
South Side Sox (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Joe Cowley earned himself a bit of a scoop Saturday with the news that not only had Dayan Viciedo, who has been called " Cuba's Best Teen Talent ," successfully skirted the draft process and been declared a free agent, but the Sox appear to have something of an inside track to acquiring the current third baseman (who projects more as a 1B/DH). Viciedo, like Alexei Ramirez and Jose Contreras,...
