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Sox get Pierre; a Dotel in decline

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Update: Since discussion has already started here, I’ll just tack on that the White Sox acquired Juan Pierre for two PTBNLs and $9 million.

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With the lack of White Sox news for once, I turned my attention to eulogies tonight, knocking out parting words for Octavio Dotel and D.J. Carrasco.

If you follow me on Twitter — or read the box to the right — you’ll see a couple of interesting numbers about Dotel, namely that:

  • He allowed more than half of his inherited runners to score in 2009.
  • Compared to 2008, he allowed more inherited runners to score (13 to 12) despite having far fewer of them (25 to 43).

Add in the rising walk rate, declining strikeout rate, the lack of success with his fastball and his 37 years of age, and the Sox were smart to not offer him arbitration. Sorry, Chris.

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Christian Marrero Reading Room:

*South Side Sox has an awesome MS Paint art gallery going.  Might not be safe for work, only due to the vivid colors and sheer hilarity.

*Andrew says J.J. Putz is composed of Sox parts.

*It’s not related to the Sox, but this Roy Halladay-Cliff Lee-three-team-trade is amazing.

*Hideki Matsui is changing coasts and joining the Angels. “Cross him off the list, then.”

*Fun to look at: A photo of old Old Comiskey from the Library of Congress (by way of BTF).

*On Facebook: A classic Christmas card from Kenny.

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Dotel’s advocate

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

A couple more offseason plans arrived in my e-mail today.  Not to spoil them, but they both start by letting Octavio Dotel leave without offering arbitration.

That has been the one unanimous decision in all the offseason plans thus far.  Letting Jermaine Dye walk is a close second, but some have at least entertained the idea of taking him back at a reduced salary for DH purposes.

Anyway, along with the plans in my e-mail, I got this one from Chris Pummer introducing the argument in favor of offering Dotel arbitration.

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I’m one of your lurking readers. Thanks for all the work you do in putting out a quality White Sox blog.

The offseason plan posts you’ve been running have been interesting, even if they’re not always realistic. It’s still kind of a fun way to see how informed readers think the team can be improved for next year.

A universal component of these plans is to decline arbitration to Octavio Dotel because of his $6 million price tag this past season. Assuming he didn’t break the bank with an arbitration panel, he’d stand to get a modest raise over that — though I don’t know I foresee an award bigger than $7 million.

That’s a pretty steep price to pay for a middle reliever, which is why I’m sure so many readers think it’s not worth the risk to offer arbitration.

But would it really be that much considering the cost of acquiring a capable replacement?

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