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Article: The Chicago Tribune Phil Rogers Baseball column: White Sox owe Buehrle a legitimate offer.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 20, 2007
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Byline: Phil Rogers
Jun. 20--Don't the White Sox realize what they have in Mark Buehrle?
If Buehrle isn't the second coming of Billy Pierce, he's the most consistently effective pitcher the South Siders have had in the 46 years since Ed Short traded Pierce to the San Francisco Giants. He's in his eighth big-league season and is somehow only 28, which is one year older than Pierce was in 1954 when he finished his eighth season in the big leagues.
Was Pierce washed up at 28?
Well, sure, if you consider an 86-57 record, a 3.01 ERA and an average of 241 innings over the next five years as being washed up, he was some kind of washed up. ...