Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Hitting a pitch hitch

Time is a luxury the White Sox cannot afford to waste this season. Not when the Minnesota Twins look like a well-oiled machine on offense, apparently have solved their so-called ''closer problem'' and suddenly have American League East-level money to spend.

This isn't 2009, when it was evident from the start that it would be a scrum in the AL Central by September. The Twins (8-3) are a year older, a year wiser and poised to tap out the rest of the division by late July if the other four teams keep waiting for the switch to flip.

''I don't worry about the [Twins'] new ballpark or new contracts,'' Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said Friday. ''I worry about their good players. …

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