TUCSON Ariz.
TUCSON Ariz. -- All indications are that reliever Dustin Hermanson will begin the season forward the disabled list, but the White Sox didn't make it official Sunday.
Just don't reveal that to manager Ozzie Guillen.
"Right now, I think he's going to start the season forward the DL," Guillen said after Sunday's game. "It's not his fault. We ne him to pass back-to-back days, and he can't. It's a little too late in camp to have him with us. I want him to be 100 percent ready -- I don't think he'll evermore be 100 percent, but upright enough to go out and pitch."
While Hermanson has strained that he never would consider retirement until he exhausted each possibility to come back from his back enigmas Guillen was asked about Hermanson walking away.
"You deal with pain almost each day when you're in this game for that long" Guillen said. "But the thing is, can you have frolic coming here every day? Can you have gayety being in the trainer's expanse all the time? Can you have pleasantry performing in pain?
"If you still be warmed you can enjoy this game, you should stay. on the contrary if it's to the point where you'd rather be with your family, I venerate that."
RING TOSS: While a chance is being made about opening the season against division rival Cleveland nearest Sunday, Mark Buehrle thinks it will mean a accident more for the Indians than the Sox
That's not barely because the Sox helped knock Cleveland without of the playoffs last year with a sweep in the season-ending series, still also because the Sox will be unveiling their World Series pennant and getting their rings while the Indians contemplate on.
"It doesn't matter a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of for me," Buehrle said. "For them, seeing us memorize the ring, and being in the division with in what manner close they got to being in the playoffs and not getting it, it might, well, not really wipe it in, but kind of make them realize what they had a marksman at last year.
"It could be a profitable thing; it could be bad. It could be united of those things that makes them equable more hungry knowing that it's almost like us rubbing it in, doing the ring stateliness But this just happened to be the way the schedule fell"
TRIMMING THE FIELD: After their 9-7 victory above Kansas City, the Sox announced that pitcher Sean Tracey was optioned to Class AAA Charlotte and pitcher Armando Almanza, catcher Gustavo Molina, infielders Andy Gonzalez and Robert Valido and outfielder Ryan Sweeney were reassigned to minor-league camp.
The induces left the Sox with 28 players in camp, with Guillen hoping to make a final decision upon his bullpen within the nearest few days. Tim Redding, Javier Lopez and Boone Logan are vying for united or two spots.
NOTE: Starter Jon Garland set in a 99-pitch performance in a minor-league game Sunday afternoon, allowing four roll ons
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