Paul Konerko

The Chicago White Sox introduced Robin Ventura today, as their new manager. According to Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune the former White Sox received a three-year deal from Chicago. GM, Kenny Williams, considered naming Paul Konerko as a player/manager adds Gonzales. “That report is not false,” said Williams. “It was considered long enough for me to [...]

Here’s a running list of injury updates around the Major Leagues: – Giants rookie Brandon Belt was placed on the Disabled List with a hairline fracture in left wrist according to the team’s official Twitter account. – The Los Angeles Dodgers have placed short stop Rafael Furcal on the Disabled List according to the team’s official Twitter [...]

Baseball season has finally arrived and that means that the offseason is almost officially over.  So we at PRO Rumors decided to take a look back at the offseason that each AL team had and how they compared to other clubs in the league.  Some clubs had an offseason to remember because of who [...]

The Third of the Winter Meetings, proved to be the busiest.  Type-A free agents were signed, there were plenty of Cliff Lee rumors and we almost had a trade (maybe early tomorrow morning).  O yeah and some guy name Carl Crawford signed a huge seven-year $142 million with the Red Sox.  If you missed the [...]

According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today the White Sox have agreed in principle to a new deal with Konerko.  the deal is believed to be for 3-years for $37.5 million according to Scott Merkin of MLB.com. Also Konerko gets $12 million (2011), $12 million(2012) and $13.5 million (2013), but only [...]

Here’s the running list of Cliff Lee rumors for Wednesday: –The Red Sox are not considered serious bidders for Lee but according to Ben Goessling of masnsport.com, they will at least kick the tires on him and at minimum drive the price up for the other potential bidders. Tuesday – According to Jack Curry of the YES Network, [...]

Each day at the Winter Meetings differs from the next.  Yesterday we heard about the potential James Loney and Jonathan Broxton for Brewers first basemen Prince Fielder trade.  Today, the biggest trade rumor involved Michael Young being sent to the Rockies in exchange for major league ready players (not [...]

While left handed pitcher Cliff Lee decides where he will pitch in 2011, the Texas Rangers have some other businesses to attend. They are still talking with the Royals about Zack Greinke, and according to MLB.com’s T.R Sullivan the Rangers are also interested in Rays’ pitcher Matt Garza if the Rays are truly motivated in moving [...]

Everything seemed to be going smoothly for the White Sox until Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times informed us that Paul Konerko and his representatives are adamant about $15 million per year.  Cowley goes on to say that a salary of that amount would crush the White Sox and prevent them from signing any bullpen [...]

According to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated and FOXSports’ Ken Rosenthal, Paul Konerko’s agent, Craig Landis is scheduled to meet with the Chicago White Sox on Monday. The sides are very close and Heyman says that the deal will pay out $13 million per season. According to ESPN’s Buster Olney the reports of the two sides [...]