The White Sox were looking for pitching even before they put Scott Linebrink on the DL Saturday with a sore right shoulder. But so far, general manager Kenny Williams isn't encouraged.
"The climate is awful," Williams said before Chicago's Saturday night game in Detroit. "But that's from my perspective. Obviously the Yankees were able to get something done. But from our vantage point, I'm not really seeing anything that makes sense."
Even with Linebrink out, it's believed that the Sox are focused more on getting a starter than on getting a reliever. But they've looked at both.
Manager Ozzie Guillen said that in Linebrink's absence, he'll normally use Octavio Dotel in the eighth inning, and D.J. Carrasco in the seventh. But he said he would also consider using Matt Thornton if the opponent had a lot of left-handers scheduled to bat in either the seventh or the eighth, and he said he would consider Dotel in the sixth or seventh if he thought that was the most important inning of the game.