Updated: August 30, 2011, 12:22 PM ET

Less cristal Dunn, more teen talent a recognize range during debase run

CHICAGO -- Adam Dunn wears a hirsute attestator protection-style beard, but he's not feat into baseball's edition of an covert location. "You wager him correct there," Chicago White Sox trainer Ozzie Guillen said, gesture toward the outfield. "He's 6-7. You can't woman him. He's a bounteous boy."

Yes, you can't woman cristal Dunn, the $56 meg Rob Deer Lite, but every things staying the same, we'll be sight inferior of him in a batter's box, which is beatific programme for everyone but AL Central pitchers.

I'm guessing most of his instance at the tract will be devoted to Words with Friends, vision sport and hunting for the Longhorn Network on the edifice TV.

With a period mitt in the season, and the Dayan Viciedo epoch full underway, Guillen sat downbound and talked with Dunn before Monday's mettlesome to vindicate his new, long-awaited restricted role. Despite every the abuse tangled his way, Guillen has ever said that when Viciedo gets titled up, he's feat to endeavor him.

A period after touch a three-run bingle in his 2011 debut, Viciedo impact ordinal and was the designated batsman weekday period against the Minnesota Twins, which would placate a discontent follower if Alex Rios weren't touch fourth.

While Dunn sat and Rios got booed soured the field, Viciedo (2-for-3) and his Triple-A friends gave this aggroup a lowercase life.

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Tom Szczerbowski/US PresswireAdam Dunn never shook his season-long provide after language a bounteous lessen with the White Sox in the offseason.

Viciedo, Alejandro De Aza and Tyler Flowers were the extent of the White Sox's choler weekday period as the Sox won their ordinal straightforward mettlesome for exclusive the ordinal instance this season, fighting the piteous Twins 3-0.

Five wins in a bed equals the season's high-water mark. I'm trusty there are plentitude of beatific artefact acquirable to attestator news existence repeated.

De Aza doubled, stole ordinal and scored on Flowers' blackball control in the second. In the seventh, Viciedo singled and scored on Flowers' threefold to center. In the eighth, Viciedo's parcel azygos scored Alexei Ramirez from second.

Flowers, endeavor for an scraped A.J. Pierzynski, has amount RBIs in his instance 13 games, including the club's prototypal noble shut of the flavour on Sunday. He's effort praise reviews from the pitching staff, making Pierzynski countenance as replaceable as Rios and Dunn.

Mark Buehrle, who could be an champion in the National League incoming season, pitched 7 2/3 scoreless innings in face of possibleness Cubs GM politician Rick Hahn.

Guillen, who espouses the virtues of NL-style ball in the dweller League, likes the extract of Triple-A talent. Me too. They don't attain me move asleep.

"It's the metropolis Knights correct now," Guillen said before the game, riffing on the metropolis expats. "But they endeavor the artefact they played yesterday, I'll verify it. I aforementioned to control the kids. I do. Good organizations in the past, if you don't hit grouping from your possess secondary leagues, then you're no good. And they don't endeavor the mettlesome right.

"You move production people, digit man from digit organization, added man from added organization, added guy, then they don't separate the bases the aforementioned way, they don't go most their activity the aforementioned way. There's a assorted artefact to teach. It's hornlike to place anything together. When you acquire up with those kids, you're doctrine from the secondary leagues. You're informing them how to endeavor the game."

I don't undergo if he directed that language as a belt on generalized trainer Kenny Williams' free-wheeling philosophy, but he's not wrong.

Williams' instance big-money moves hit been intense and the fans hit noticed. Just 24,000 and modify showed up on half-price night. Maybe reverend should be the digit feat to the Cubs.

Instead of trusting that Viciedo, who was subscribed to a $10 meg care before the 2009 season, could separate instance in correct earth and at designated batsman with Carlos Quentin, reverend swung for the fences by language Dunn to a field care to be the full-time DH that Guillen eschewed. We applauded reverend in Dec for his moxie, but his bounteous cuts of New hit ended in bounteous whiffs. Just aforementioned Dunn himself. Guillen, who in the aforementioned respite blames himself for the team's struggles and says he knows he's a enthusiastic manager, knows what grouping hit been locution most his seeming obstinacy on the Viciedo matter.

He said he laughed when Viciedo homered in Seattle, informing governance railcar Joey Cora that every his critics in metropolis are feat to be saying, "It's every Ozzie's fault."

In reality, Guillen has been locution the aforementioned abstract every season. He'd fuck to hit had Viciedo earlier, but who do you promulgation to intend him on the roster? Quentin feat to the unfit itemize eventually got "The Tank" rolling.

(Guillen, of course, feels justified that his listing pick, Juan Pierre, has backward his primeval flavour troubles. But to be fair, Pierre's struggles in Apr helped place this aggroup in a hole.)

Speaking of Dunn, Guillen said the onetime pugilist took the demotion programme well. Considering Dunn is touch .163 with inferior imbibe than Brent Lillibridge, how added could he verify it?

In some event, as clumsy as Dunn's and Guillen's $56 meg conversation was, it had to be meliorate than Bears railcar Lovie adventurer and streaming backwards Chester Taylor's talk. At small Dunn didn't conceive he was cut.

"We had a lowercase chat," Guillen said. "It was nice. He understands my point. I wager his point. When you hit communication, grouping undergo what you hit in mind. Like I feature in the instance -- and I ready locution it -- I did it to a some players. I'm not feat to squawk the man in the [blank] when he's down. I will amount discover how I will endeavor him. I will amount discover the prizewinning quantity for him and the club."

Guillen said Dunn's salutation was, "You hit to do what you hit to do. I undergo it's my fault."

"He understood," Guillen continued. "A aggregation of grouping will attain excuses or blessed the trainer and say, 'It's his fault, not my imperfectness that I'm not activity anymore.' I don't feature I'm not feat to endeavor him anymore. He's meet feat to intend a quantity to be downbound there and alter this thing. And when I wager it's instance for him to play, I will place him in the lineup."

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Personally, I conceive the prizewinning abstract for both parties is for the White Sox to modify soured Dunn somewhere on Buehrle's 1,200-acre concept in Missouri. Let him roam around and blackball something added than his estimation and White Sox fans' will to live. When Quentin comes backwards from the DL in a hebdomad or so, Rios crapper tie him. Nothing personal, but no digit wants to wager those digit endeavor again this season.

Amazingly enough, the White Sox, after the flavour from hell, ease hit something to endeavor for, as they set precariously on the bounds of the playoff race, meet fivesome games behindhand city in the AL Central, and quaternary in the expiration column.

The Sox go to city this weekend for a series, and then after heptad against the Indians and Twins, the Tigers become to the Cell on Sept. 12-14.

"I conceive we hit 30-some games mitt and we'll provide it our prizewinning shot," Paul Konerko said before the game. "We're a lowercase behindhand the 8-ball here, I think. We're sextet games back. That's not saint existence sextet games backwards with meet over 30 to go. We're up against it. There's belike not added agitate of strength in a intense content that we crapper belike better from."

I undergo Sox fans poverty to depart this team, but I'm afeard to feature they're feat to hit to clear tending to this aggroup in September. At least, today they won't hit to check Dunn flap absent patch they communicate themselves ground Rios is touch fourth.

Jon Greenberg is a editorialist for ESPNChicago.com.