White Sox retain Garcia, Thornton
Posted Oct 06, 2009 3:10 PM
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CHICAGO -The Chicago White Sox have exercised club options for 2010 on right-hander Freddy Garcia and left-hander Matt Thornton.
Garcia will have a base salary of $1 million next season and Thornton $2.25 million.
Garcia was 3-4 with a 4.34 ERA in nine starts after signing a minor league contract June 8. He was a key member of the 2005 rotation when Chicago won the World Series. He will be a candidate for the fifth starter's role next spring.
Thornton, a key setup man, was 6-3 with a 2.74 ERA and four saves this season. He had 87 strikeouts in 70 appearances.
Thornton has compiled a 21-19 record with a 3.71 ERA in six major league seasons, all but one of his 349 games in relief.
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2009-10-06 15:56:33

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Ralphgmiami
9:59PM Jun 9 2009 
Spanish people really need to change or stay away from some names. All those who have this name should have it changed to cologne. While we're at it, they shouldn't be able to use Jesus too. It's too controversial as you hear about some guy with the first name of Jesus being arrested. Of course people with the name of Jesus are nicknamed "chewy." Also you know how we have the name Jennifer. In spanish they try to make it all fancy so they name female babies "Genatalia." For those of you not familiar, that's female genitals. See what I mean about embarrassing names in spanish. Also spanish if vowel crazy as they stress the vowels but rarely pronounce the consonates. That's why there are weird names such as Joaquin Andujar(Waling Underwear) and Joaquin Arias(Walking Areas).There's even a rookie on the Phillies named Bastardo which translated from Italian means bastard.
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