A hot streak. I think all of the White Sox are preforming over their expectations. But, if he can bring his Average up closer to 300 and get the OBP a little, getting on base as well as bringing it home, then i’d buy into the fact that we shouldn’t have given up on him.

Plus, the pitching the sox have been facing in the AL central is preforming horribly to this point.

Far too early for anything meaningful to be drawn. Basically, until the end of April, sample sizes are so small as to be effectively impossible to draw any sensible conclusions. Thus far, this is obviously, a no-brainer. Byrnes has the best stats, though I must say Quentin’s power intrigues me. However, perhaps a less clear-cut and possibly more pertinent question is, which hitter would you want for your lineup for the next three years?

Eric Byrnes for $30m
Carlos Quentin for 2 x league minimum and his first year of arb
Scott Hairston for the same?

[I’m not sure whether Quentin has accumulated a full year on a major-league roster. so I’m not certain is his first arb year will be 2010 or 2011] Outside of the salary, we would also have to think that Byrnes (now aged 32) will probably get worse, Quentin (25) get better and Hairston (28 next month) is close to his peak.

Good point on Byrnes’ speed, but he is also the one with the longest track-record, so predicting his future performance is a lot easier than someone like Hairston, who has barely 350 ABs in the majors since the end of 2004, or Quentin, 440 ABs lifetime. You get certainty with Byrnes, as well as someone to act as the public face for the franchise, and attract fans in a way the rookies probaby can’t do quite yet. Though if Special K continues to hit long bombs… :-)

While Q’s offensive potential is nice, he can’t compete with Eric when it comes to defense and baserunning.

Obviously Byrnes is the best player now, but we committed the cardinal sin with Q: we sold at his absolute lowest possible value. I appreciate the message the FO was trying to send with the Byrnes signing, but it was a mistake. Probably not as colossal a mistake as I made it out to be, but it was still a mistake. Q will prove that decisively next year, if not this year.

I think Q will be a good ball player in the coming years. The real Q isn’t the guy we had last year. That being said, I think EB is the guy the dbacks need right now with the make up of our team. Even if they have the same stats at the end of the year EB is the better guy for our team now.

who will show he can’t hit A.L. pitching any better than he could N.L. hurlers. Steve Stone will bury him soon enough as White Sox radio analyst. Remember Erubiel Durazo?