Daily Archives: July 27, 2007

Michael Dubee traded

For White Sox 2B Tad Iguchi. No complaints here. Dubee is a C+ prospect at this point, and isn’t close to being a big league contributor, and hopefully this keeps Nunez out of the every day lineup.

For White Sox fans who might find this blog via Google, here’s the report I wrote on Dubee this winter.

I rated Dubee a C at the time, and as I said, I’d probably rate him a C+ prospect at this point.

Iguchi’s contract has this clause, per Cots

contract includes clause requiring White Sox to sign Iguchi to an extension by sometime in 2007, or release him (effectively granting Iguchi free agency after three years of ML service)

So, I don’t really know if that will still apply. I can see him being resigned as a backup, but I don’t know if he’d be interested.

Ottawa Lynx Week Sixteen(Part Two-Richmond)

Against the Braves, nothing went right as the Lynx slid further and further into last place, the team once again reverting back to poor pitching and hitting. They were simply out of games early against the Richmond Braves and once again were swept in a double header. Richmond got off to a very hot start this season and have continued to hold first place all season. They’re hot start can be attributed to a very good pitching staff and the combination of Braves pitching and Ottawa hitting didn’t bode well for Ottawa. The first three games in Richmond were awful, really bad and awful. The fourth was closer but again another loss. J.A. Happ was awful, Bubba Nelson gave up seven runs, closer Brian Sanches had to start the second game of a double header, (he got hit but a booted inning ending double play grounder didn’t help), and Fabio Castro went 4.1 solid innings but lost and the Lynx didn’t hit, (again), four runs in four games.

Continue reading Ottawa Lynx Week Sixteen(Part Two-Richmond)

Things looking good for Workman et all

Thanks to SQUIRE for posting this article in a previous post.

With the signing of Savery, the Phillies have now signed 17 of their first 19 picks and all but seven of their first 33 selections. They also expressed confidence that they will be able to come to terms with right-hander Brandon Workman (the No. 3 selection), right-hander Julian Sampson (No. 12) and center fielder Cedric Johnson (No. 19), but all three high school players need to be signed by Aug. 15.

I’m going to try to get a bit more info on Johnson, and if I can hunt it down today, I’ll update this post. I’d be happy with this haul here, and I’d upgrade the draft to a solid B.