The White Sox extended Ozzie Crazypants for another season. Kenny Williams:
It is my hope that we can get refocused on some of the positive energy we’ve had in the past and we can extend the relationship into the end of his career and the end of mine
I’m also hoping this new extension leads to the end of both of your careers, Kenny.
The magic of the interwebs has tubed me to the fact that the Angels just traded pretty-good catcher Mike Napoli and sort-of-hokay outfielder Juan Rivera to the Blue Jays for mediocre and hugely overpaid 32-year-old Vernon Wells. Napoli himself is a really good bet to be more valuable than Wells, and, if you don’t recall, the Jays got a second player also.
The real key to this deal, of course, is how much of Wells’ contract the Angels picked up. Because Vernon Wells has one of the worst contracts in baseball, as he himself recently admitted. Initial speculation about this deal had it as Wells-for-Napoli, and then the Jays send salary relief. This whole "Angels add another player and Jays add apparently nothing" angle is new. Bank on it: if the Angels are eating Wells’ entire contract, this is the worst trade since Brian Sabean shipped Fransisco Liriano, Joe Nathan, and Boof Bonser to the Twinkies for one season of washed-up A.J. Pierzynski (A.J.’s total value to the Giants: 0 WAR. Total value of the package the Twins received: who knows, since Liriano’s still their ace and Nathan’s still their closer. Value to date: 27.8 WAR.)
