White Sox morning roundup

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From the weekend:

Robin Ventura set his first lineup, complete with A.J. Pierzynski and Alex Rios batting in the second and third spots in the order, respectively. There's a good chance the lineup the Sox trot out against the Dodgers today is the one they'll go with against Texas on Opening Day -- which Hardball Talk's Matthew Pouliot sees as a disaster. White Sox Observer's James Fegan also looked at a few roster and lineup prognostications.

Chuck Garfien spoke to Brent Lillibridge, who thinks the Sox have a good chance to get off to a fast start. Hopefully he's right, since it seems like the Sox haven't had a really good start to a season in years.

Moe Berg might be the most awesome player in White Sox history. Via Chris Kamka's fantastic writeup: "He was a voracious reader of newspapers; upwards of ten a day. He considered each newspaper 'live' until he read it. If anyone touched his newspapers before they were read, they were pronounced 'dead' and he would have to buy it again."

The Sox had an intrasquad game Saturday and Dayan Viciedo hit a grand slam off Gavin Floyd, moving the team's spring record to .500. Oh, and Chris Sale looked good, and Brent Morel's feeling good.

A little clerical item: The Sox agreed to contracts with 24 players, meaning the team's payroll will be 102.5 million this season. And here are photos of some of those players.

Gavin Floyd trade rumors: Will. Not. Die. In similarly frustratingdisappointing news, Alexei Ramirez wants his gold medal from the 2004 Summer Olympics back.

If MLB's new playoff system was in place dating back to 1995, which teams would've benefited the most? Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. But the White Sox would've made the postseason in 2006 and would've been part of a hilarious play-in-game mess in 1996.

Around the division: Recaps, box scores and notes from Sunday's spring training games played by Detroit, Minnesota, Kansas City and Cleveland -- and Joel Zumaya's going to have Tommy John surgery after all.

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