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Jesse Crain, White Sox Have 3-Year Deal

The Chicago White Sox and reliever Jesse Crain have agreed to terms on a three-year deal, according to MLB.com's Peter Gammons. The total value of Crain's deal is approximately $13 million, reported FOXSports.com Wednesday night. Crain, a right-hander, has spent the past seven seasons with the division rival Minnesota...

Steve Phillips' Fix My Team: White Sox

Every team has a few precious months in the offseason to make tweaks to their roster and ensure that they improve in 2011. Steve Phillips has taken a team to the World Series before, and in November and December he will present his plan for every major league team to get there as well. It's the 20th episode of Fix My Team,...

Mark Teixeira Latest Yankee to Become Pain in Twins' Side

MINNEAPOLIS -- There is a huge difference between someone or something being broken and being fragile. Based on what went down Wednesday night in Target Field, we can reason that it's better to be broken than to be fragile. Mark Teixeira is broken, or at least broken down. He's playing with a slow-to-heal broken right...

Scouting Notes: Pattern Pitching Dooms Francisco Liriano in Game 1

You can get good hitters out the same way only so many times. Particularly when pitching against the Yankees, the way you get them out for the first five innings may not work anymore come the sixth or the seventh. Francisco Liriano and the Twins learned that the hard way in Game 1 of the American League Division Series....

Forget Chicago, Twins Now Taking Aim at Beasts of AL East

CHICAGO -- Is it too soon to say the Chicago White Sox aren't going to catch the Minnesota Twins in the American League Central this year? Realistically, it's not. The Twins swamped the Chicago bullpen for five runs in the eighth inning to break open a close game en route to a 9-3 win Tuesday in U.S. Cellular Field. That...

Jesse Crain News From the Web

05/18/12 Crain has put left oblique strain behind him Source: MLB - Chicago White Sox Pitching in back-to-back games against the Angels further proved to Jesse Crain that his left oblique strain is now in the past.
05/16/12 Sox notes: Ventura not surprised at Dunn's power surge Source: Daily Chronicle - Dekalb IL Manager Robin Ventura isn't surprised Dunn has hit 12 home runs with 28 RBIs through 37 games â on pace to destroy last year's awful numbers that surprised the first-year skipper.
05/15/12 Game thread: Tigers win, 10-8, in heart-pounding finish Source: Detroit Free Press - Detroit MI Note: Reliever Jesse Crain has been activated from the 15-day disabled list by the White Sox, who designated left-hander Eric Stults for assignment.
05/15/12 White Sox reliever Crain close to returning Source: Daily Chronicle - Dekalb IL The return of reliever Jesse Crain can only help the White Sox's bullpen after a shaky weekend.
05/14/12 Robin Ventura Pregame Source: Inside the White Sox On if beating Detroit is more significant than other teams: "No, it just means they are a very good (team) and that they are in your division so they're important. It's weird because it's a two-game series, but then again they're a good team and you want to play well because they're in your division. They're good, we've got John (Danks) going today."