The wannabe GMs
out there are cheering over reports the White Sox have signed soon-to-be
37-year old Edwin Encarnacion to a one-year, $12 million deal, with team option
for a second year. Allow me to add some
perspective.
Consider the
following: Walt Dropo; Larry Doby (first go-around); Ted Kluszewski; Minnie
Minoso (second go-around); Roy Sievers; Bill “Moose” Skowron; Jim King; Rocky
Colavito; Ken Boyer; Deron Johnson; Bobby Bonds; Carlton Fisk; Greg Luzinski;
George Foster; Oscar Gamble (second go-around); Ron Kittle (second go-around);
George Bell; Harold Baines (second and third go-arounds); Jose Canseco; Jim
Thome; Ken Griffey Jr.; Andruw Jones; Manny Ramirez; Adam Dunn; and Adam
LaRoche. Every one of them a slugger and
every one of them acquired by the Sox after they turned 30.
Some put up nice
numbers, some hardly any numbers at all.
If Encarnacion can do what
Minoso, Fisk, Luzinski or Baines did in their good years, next season
should be interesting. If not, Encarnacion
joins a long list of players who came too late to the party at 35th
and Shields.
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