White Sox Trade Carlos Quentin To Padres

A team that uses the term “rebuilding” is a team that’s essentially saying “Boy, you should see the players we’re getting now. They’ll be awesome in three years. Which is when you should check them out. I’d probably just save my money this year if I were you.” So you can understand why that’s not the most popular way for a team to describe what they’re doing.

But if prospects are raffle tickets, then youngish players with a lot of trade value must seem like Confederate dollars. Not much you can do with those, but the drunk guy behind the counter will take them in exchange for the raffle tickets, and if you get enough of those …

Sickels doesn’t rate either one of these pitchers as a “premium” prospect, but does say that Castro has some upside and that the White Sox farm system needs “infusions of talent from any possible source.”