Rob Neyer ranks the top 100 players of the 00's. Arbitrary cutoff of a given 10 year span? Sure. But Buerhle is 29th overall and the 8th pitcher behind such luminaries as Doc, Johan and Mo.

Congrats Mark!

Top Ten list of b-ref sponsorships. Funny AND obscure. There may be a full house reference, no guarantees though.

If Rob Neyer's "Beane Count" is to be believed (http://espn.go.com/mlb/beanecount), the White Sox were much better then their final record indicates. They did a tremendous job of being on the good side for walks and home runs for pitchers and hitters.

So, uh, we need some defense.

As the story says, after Redmond is Morales, with 4 career ML ABs. His minor league numbers look to peg him at around the same as Redmond offensively, I think. Some shifting in obp/slg to maintain his OPS on a repeat of AAA but a constant, and possibly out of whack high BA. Its higher then his younger years, which might mean an obp drop is expected; or he learned to watch more balls go by as his walks were up and SO's down.

Looks like he split time with Ryan Jorgensen in AAA in a possible platoon, although Morales is a switch hitter.

I have no insight on the defensive side. Any notes?

Tom Tango has set up a survey to predict playing time for each team based on the wisdom of the crowds. Link is above. Takes about ~10 seconds, its all ranges.