Silly Season

I opened up the Tribune sports’ section this morning and nearly fell off my chair—the Bears’ got the same amount of space usually reserved for the White Sox and Bulls on the road.  How the mighty have fallen.

If only people would stop writing silly stuff about the White Sox.  Really, all it takes is a twitter account to turn someone into a reputable source, that and the imprimatur that goes with being part of MLB.com.  Read Baseball Pravda, and you come away thinking the White Sox are hot for free-agent outfielder Yasiel Puig.  But never once is it explained why that would be.

At the age of 29, why would Puig want to sign a likely one-year contract to platoon in right field?  The only reason I can see is he owes money big time and needs to get his hands on some, pronto, before the bone breakers track him down.  Unless Puig is being advised by Mickey Mouse, it would make more sense for him to start for the Marlins than platoon with the Sox.  If he puts up big numbers in Miami, he’d most likely get moved to a contender.  Sign with the Sox, the odds are against him getting the at-bats to put up big numbers that could translate into a nice contract the next season.  Oh, and one other thing.

Why would the Sox want Puig in the first place?  Puig and Jose Abreu would mix about as well as oil and water.  Outside of the alliteration, the idea of a Puig platoon just doesn’t make sense, unless you go for solutions in search of a problem.  Say what you will about Sox GM Rick Hahn (and I usually do), he doesn’t strike me as the type.  The Sox already have themselves Nomar Mazara for right field, with Leury Garcia and Adam Engel as platoon candidates.

Signing Puig would be downright silly.