Deal or No Deal

Another great night of baseball. I love the lineup Ozzie inserted, Jason Nix leading off and playing left field and Josh Fields playing first with Paulie DH-ing. With a pitcher like Cliff Lee, who can dominate lefties, I thought it was the right move to load the order with right hand bats, and it worked. The hits were pouring in from up and down the order including Gordan Beckham's second home run. Josh Fields continues to prove that he either strikes out or hits home runs, which I guess is not such a bad trade-off.

Now the big discussion looming large on the south side, and has been since spring training, is whether we should be buyers or sellers. Let me give you my elaborate thoughts. Do nothing. It's that simple. We have a team that can certainly compete for the division, and we also have no glaring weaknesses in my mind, so lets just stand pat and let our players play. And I definitely don't want us to become sellers. Our farm system is maybe the best it has ever been right now, and I see no reason why we should get greedy and try to add to the depth in the minor leagues by trading away one of our veteran players.

I know the Jerry Jones philosophy where if you are doing nothing, you ain't trying. But I think in the case of the Sox, if Kenny were to make a move, he would be trying way to hard. Our pitching is coming along nicely, the bullpen is going through a bit of a rough patch right now but they will straighten things out, and we get Carlos Quentin back which will seem like a new acquisition, so I say we do absolutely nothing.