You Get What You Pay For

In sports like the rest of life, you get what you pay for, and the White Sox are nothing if not cheap. I mean player development and compensation, not prices at the ball mall. So, news that starter Martin Perez was placed on the 60-day IL shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Perez, 34, was signed to a one-year deal, to be flipped or to flop, it didn’t matter all that much to be bottom-dwelling Sox. GM Chris Getz took a chance on Perez’s left elbow. After 1595.2 innings, Getz looks to have lost his bet. Not to worry, and not to expect any of the team’s Double-A talent to step in, not while Mike—Bad Penny—Clevinger is still around. Clevinger was DFA’d last week; cleared waivers (as in no orthwe MLB team wanted him); and assigned to Triple-A Charlotte. Apparently, the plan is for Clevinger to go to Arizona and get stretched out so he can return to starting. If all works out, he could be back on the South Side sometime this summer. Oh, fingers crossed.