Considering no one consideration they ever would witness Jerry Owens or Scott Podsednik back in a Sox uniform, why not? One lifetime after announcing that Owens would knock off the roster incomprehension Heraldry sinister when Dewayne Wise suffered a Grade 3 right-shoulder split in the 10-6 first over Detroit, the cudgel said Tuesday that 2005 man of the hour Scott Podsednik was signed to a minor-league deal with Class AAA Charlotte, where he will frisk center field. In other words, he is the assurance policy. "It's something to back up something here if it goes inappropriately or if it doesn't go the movement we want to," superintendent Ozzie Guillen said of the Podsednik move. "Wise is succeeding to be out for a hardly any while, but sanguinely the guys we put there are playing well. I reflect it's a healthy acquisition.
He's active to play center speciality there in case we need him up here. It's favourable news. I suppose a lot of his teammates wanted it. A span of guys came to me and said that retaliate for away. We'll envisage what happens.
" As for the immediate future, Brian Anderson becomes the circadian starter in center field, at least until he shows the stick he can or cannot control it. "I don't recollect how much [Owens] is booming to play," Guillen said. "Brian Anderson will injunction how much he's prevailing to play. The leash [for Anderson], I don't want to deliver it's testy or it's long.
I want to finance how many admissible at-bats he's going to give me." And it sounds be he will get his share. Guillen said that Grade 3 segregation puts Wise on the shelf until at least June. "It's terrible because this dude plays so stark and made the yoke out of spring training," Guillen said of Wise. "He struggled and then all of a rapid the total went back to normal and this happens.
" Before Tuesday's also meet was postponed, Anderson was in the nine-hole of the starting lineup, and Owens was on the bench. Considering where Owens was just a few weeks ago — apparently on his conduct out of baseball — the once-promising plan wasn't prospering to complain. Owens was waived by the Sox the matrix week of beginning camp, and then leanred that no other party wanted him, clearing waivers.
His only choice was back to Charlotte or back home. He chose the first, and is now inasmuch as the thorough trouble "a blessing." "I just think, honestly, mentally, getting entranced off the roster and getting sent to Charlotte was a good fortune for me because you can get complacent on the 40-man — you're a prospect, you're universal to be playing every hour and sometimes you chronicle it for granted," Owens said.
"I believe I lost spot of what I bring to the table as far as being a leadoff hitter and an igniter. Just in the heretofore 10-12 days, I've been able to gather back and be aware of what I have to offer to the Chicago White Sox. "I got to get my victim in habiliments and pick it up and it put things in prospect from me as to what do I want out of this game.
Do I want to plummet by the wayside? Do I want to reverse it on and make a go of it?" The Sox are hoping that it's more than just bat the breeze coming from Owens.
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