Gordon Beckham News

Various media outlets are reporting that 43-year-old Omar Vizquel, a potential Hall-of-Fame shortstop, is close to agreeing to a one-year contract to join the Chicago White Sox.

The Chicago White Sox are in negotiations with Omar Vizquel 's agents, Arn Tellem and Tom Reich, to sign the shortstop for the 2010 season, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.

Under the Ken Williams regime on the South Side of Chicago, the White Sox have been known to target specific players of interest moving into the offseason and then act quickly in the Hot Stove period to fill those particular needs.

Unless Gordon Beckham improves his Spanish, or shortstop Alexei Ramirez expresses himself better in English, the biggest challenge for the White Sox 's new double-play combination might be communication on the field.

RHP Jeff Niemann said the offseason has given him a chance to finally reflect and soak in what a roller-coaster rookie year he had.

The Baseball Writers' Association of America will hand out their first two postseason awards on Monday, as the American and National League Rookies of the Year will be announced.

Andrew Bailey's rise from Minor League obscurity to Major League limelight is a story that won't soon be forgotten.

The question handed to Ken Williams during Monday's opening afternoon of the 2009 General Managers Meetings at the O'Hare Hilton dealt with respect, and the topic of the respect question was free-agent outfielder/designated hitter Hideki Matsui.

Gordon Beckham is certainly a hot topic now, and not just because he's a candidate for the Rookie of the Year Award .

Reports from the GM Meetings in Chicago are that the Chicago White Sox will not make a run at utility stud Chone Figgins.

Friday's acquisition of Mark Teahen from Kansas City gave the White Sox instant flexibility.

White Sox general manager Ken Williams heads to the GM meetings with a nice little to-do list, mostly because he has little money for free agency.

After Chicago White Sox trade of Chris Getz and Josh Fields, Alexei Ramirez should go back to second base Rick Morrissey In the wake of the news November 6, 2009 The world as we know it is not going to end if the White Sox move third baseman Gordon Beckham to second base, though the true Beckham believers among you might build survival bunkers just ...

Gordon Beckham makes sense at second base. But moving him there is not a huge upgrade for the White Sox without the addition of an All-Star level third baseman.

Teahen batted .271 with a 12 home runs and 50 RBIs in 144 games with the Royals in 2009.

The Chicago White Sox signed veteran utilityman Mark Kotsay to a one-year, $1.5 million contract on Thursday.

The White Sox have traded Josh Fields and Chris Getz to Kansas City in exchange for infielder-outfielder Mark Teahen, according to the New York Daily News.

There are some fairly significant changes between our yearly league rankings and our dynasty rankings, in part due to some tremendous young talent like Pablo Sandoval and Gordon Beckham.

The players have spoken. Their top NL rookie is World Series-bound Phillies left-hander J.A. Happ.