News broke today of the fourth free agent signing of the Chicago White Sox offseason, Jonathan Lucroy.
The White Sox, expected to compete for the Central Division title and considered among the top teams in the American League, have attacked their open window of opportunity and exploited their payroll flexibility not with bright stars filling obvious needs, but with the old, the overpriced, and the familiar.
Again aggressive at the start of the Winter Meetings, GM Rick Hahn struck on Day 1 and inked noted grinder/clubhouse cancer Adam Eaton to a one-year deal for $8 million, winning a bidding war of one and spending approximately twice as much as anyone could have predicted for an oft-injured, irascible punch-and-judy right fielder who is coming off a full-season projected -1.