According to MLB Radio, the D’Backs will soon announce that they have traded OF Carlos Quentin to the White Sox for 20–year-old 1B Chris Carter.

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This guy was a top prospect in the Arizona system, but was injured last season.

If this deal goes down, and he is our LF, I'm not sure how this closes the gap between the White Sox and Cleveland/Detroit.

It also may make Jerry Owens the CF because they still wouldn't have a leadoff hitter in their lineup.

Quentin put up a 1.004 OPS last year in AAA after being sent down for 1/2 of the season when he struggled upon coming back from a torn Labrum he suffered in ST.

In 166 at bats with Arizona, in the big leagues, in 2006, he put up a :
.253 .342 .530 872, with 9 home runs (in a full season that would be around 30 homers).

He was also, along with former Sox prospect Chris Young featured on "The Show".

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This is a case of the Sox acquiring someone elses junk and I sure hope kenny is right on carter, because Quentin has been a top prospect for 3 years now for AZ. I think they saw a kid who turned into a moderate power hitter hitter who strikes out alot . Great. fabulous.

I will admit I don't know enough about Carter, but being 19 in single A and Baseball prospectus has him as a #3 prospect.

Are they right ? because all the other crap I hear about the Sox prospects are ranked too? Sweeney? Broadway? they are ranked well below the guy they just traded

Five-Star Prospects
1. Fautino de los Santos, RHP
Four-Star Prospects
2. Gio Gonzalez, LHP
3. Aaron Poreda, RHP
Three-Star Prospects
4. Chris Carter, 1B
5. John Shelby, CF
6. Jose Martinez, OF
Two-Star Prospects
7. Jack Egbert, RHP
8. Ryan Sweeney, OF
9. Lance Broadway, RHP
One-Star Prospects
10. Brian Omogrosso, RHP
11. Kyle McCulloch, RHP

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Kenny has tried to trade for this guy before. He has a lot of upside and trading a 20 yr old first baseman to get him is fine. I don't think Owens will be the starting CF next season. Kenny's not done upgrading the OF.

Chris Carter, 1b, Rookie-level Great Falls (White Sox)

A 15th-round pick out of a Las Vegas high school last June, the White Sox thought they had found a sleeper in Carter when he bashed 10 home runs in his pro debut, but he struggled in an assignment to full-season Kannapolis in April, going 6-for-46 (.130) with 17 strikeouts in 13 games before getting reassigned to extended spring training. Sent out to the White Sox' Pioneer League affiliate in June, the optimism is back. Carter hit home runs in two of his first three games and has never looked back, going 8-for-12 over the weekend with his 10th home run, raising his season averages to .351/.431/.745 in 94 at-bats. A huge (6-foot-4, 220 pounds) presence at the plate with an all-or-nothing approach, Carter will always rack up high strikeout totals, but he's a pretty interesting young power prospect in a system that lacks them.

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He had a good year in 2007 - .291- 25hr- 93rbi

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/ ... er-5.shtml

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Please.

Anyone who plays in a deep/keeper fantasy league has watched this guy for 4 years.

He never worked out in Az and they have a ton young players, so they moved him. In the D Backs world 25 and been floating for 4 years between AAA and MLB is not what they wanted.

Who knows. Maybe the guy finds the juice and turns a 14 HR a year 4th OF into free agent goldmine.

It's like putting a $25 on RED 23 and letting the wheel spin.

The only real costs here is if you left the $25 on RED 1 (Chris Carter) and become the next Chris Young.

I applaude Kenny for taking these chances, but thats what it is a chance and a risk, it's just when it works out, don't start telling me about "Herm and the strength coaches and the BP guys and Beer Vendors and how it is a testament to the entire organization." Puke

Maybe you just get Lucky, like you did with Jenks and just chalk it up to that.

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Looks like 23 RED just hit.

Just curious big fan, did you get this fired up when your Cubbies spent 40 million on Jason Marquis ? 40 million for a pitcher who is a better hitter than he is a pitcher.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Once again, another great move by the best current GM in Chicago!

How did that Freddy Garcia trade work out?

It is obvious that the Chicago White Sox are in very good(but loud and sometimes obnoxious) hands.

Thank you Kenny Williams for being the best GM in Chicago since Jerry Krause!

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LMAO! I think this is a good move. Can't hurt when you consider Dye is the only good outfielder the Sox have. Byrnes is the reason I think they are getting rid of Quentin. Don't forget Maggs was a rule 5 pick up.

I looked at this thread a few days ago and had a post typed out for BF but didn't submit it. Funny how the part after 'LMAO' wasn't there then.....

Red 23, Sox are lucky. All good teams and GMs need luck. The Cub were quite lucky on thier recent homestand.

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Depends on who you ask. If you ask bigfan, 2005 was 99.9% luck and 0.1% homeruns.

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Coincidence that bigfan has stayed out of this thread since its been bumped?

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Marquis was 3 years/$21 Million.

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I guess $7mil a year still seems to be a bargain for a pitcher who hits better than he pitches.

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I didn't say it was a good deal. Just stating the facts, which are sometimes important.

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Well he makes half as much as a certain crosstown lefty and has the same # of wins and a lower ERA, so yeah, he's a bargain.

You're comparing a handful of bad starts by a Mark Buehrle, a 2 time all star and a guy who has been ON the playoff roster both times his team has made the postseason, to the likes of a Jason Marquis?

$100 Marquis vs. Buehrle W-L and ERA. Put your money where your mouth is.

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Nope I'm just saying Buerhle has sucked so far this year while making $14M while Marquis is making $6.375M. Easy killer.

And I'm saying that this is not the norm for Buerhle by any means. Marquis on the other hand appears to be right on course for his typical mid season collapse.

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While Buehrle hasn't been great he hasn't been awful either. I think he's had 3 or 4 quality starts.

Opening day really inflated that ERA. His defense let him down in other games. He's lost some low scoring games.

He's fine.

I agree. Mark has had 3 or 4 bad starts. he's also had some REALLY good starts. This is different than the 2nd half of 2006 where he just plain sucked at every start.

#56 will be fine.