Peavy's Back!

Tonight signals the return of Jake Peavy from about a year long lay-off. He is returning from unprecedented shoulder surgery in which they had to reattach his shoulder muscle to the bone. The original injury occured from him rushing back from an injury. He's made two rehab starts and done reasonably well. Ironically he is returning against the same team, the Angels, that he got injured against. To this point in Peavy’s White Sox career he has been a disappointment, making only twenty starts, and getting ten wins for roughly 23 million dollars. He earns 17 million dollars next year and there is a 22 million dollar team option in 2013, which at this point you’d have to believe the White Sox will be declining. Also, you have to take into consideration that they gave up Clayton Richard, who won 14 games and had a 3.75 era last year for a fraction of the cost of Peavy. All in all, there is a lot of pressure on Peavy the remainder of this year to live up to the massive contract he has.