White Sox Release Mike MacDougal

Rare missteps for Kenny Williams?

I see two *huge*!!! missteps last offseason alone.

Joking aside, it was pretty damn predictable that MacDougal was going to be released sometime.

Gogo Dodgers.

I could see almost any team grabbing this guy and hoping that their pitching coach can finally reach him. $1,000,000 arm, $.10 head.

Btw, I wouldn't call KW's missteps rare. Keith Foulke and Billy Koch might have something to add to that.

Macdougal was pretty good his first year, granted it was only half a season. After that he went way down hill. I wouldn't say the trade was bad, where are those other 2 guys now? If they are in the majors my mistake, but the contract was a mistake.

the sox had keith foulke, who at the time was a solid closer. they decided to trade him to the A's for billy koch, who was never able to regain his form and was out of the league as of 2004. on a sadder note, he was later diagnosed with Morgellons syndrome. foulke on the other hand, went on to be a key component to the red sox winning their first world series in awhile. it was kind of big news.

anyhow, though it was a blunder move, it wasn't anything huge. it's not like they let magglio ordonez go...oh wait.

I think they should have kept David Wells after 2001 - he had 4 solid years after that. But hindsight's always 20/20.

Letting Maglio walk and replacing him with Jermaine Dye and then winning a WS was actually one of Kenny's hallmark moves. Mags is now grossly overpaid by today's standards and immovable without Detroit eating a big chunk of the contract.

"I wouldn't say the trade was bad, where are those other 2 guys now? If they are in the majors my mistake, but the contract was a mistake."

Cortes is currently #90 on Baseball America's Top 100, and in 2008 he was #57 on the same list.

He's Kansas City's best prospect above A ball, unless you would prefer the higher dependability of Luke Hochevar, who's technically no longer a prospect.

The MacDougal trade was awful for Chicago, the White Sox really haven't had any decent pitching prospects of late and it's partially because of trades like this one and the Swisher deal (the first one).

Cooper did manage to make a good pitcher out of Gavin Floyd, and he turned John Danks into a young ace, when most scouts saw #3 starter upside when he came to Chicago. Not to mention that he helped Contreras A LOT the past few years. And then there's Esteban Loaiza as well, and he helped Jon Garland too. He's done some really great things for their starting rotation as well.