Can The White Sox PLEASE Bring Back Thome

ESPNChicgao reported that Ozzie Guillen wants to make up his mind about whether or not to resign Jim Thome by tomorrow. The answer should be a clear and unequivocal "Yes, I want to sign Jim Thome!"

This argument of a rotating DH is dumb. Just like what Matthew Berry says- you always want the line up that consists of the best players to give you the best chance of winning, and Thome is a better player than any of the players the Sox are considering for their rotating DH role (like Omar Vizquel, Andruw Jones, or Mark Kotsay).

At age 39, Thome can still play (at DH). There have been minimal decline in his skills during his stint on the Sox and there's no reason that if Thome doesn't play defense (which he won't), that he can't stay relatively healthy and productive. And the fact that Thome is still on the open market tells me that other teams are also dumb, they don't want Thome, and thus the Sox should be able to get him relatively cheap.

Here is all the categories Thome was better than Kotsay, Jones, or Vizquel last year:
-BB%
-OBP
-OPS
-RC+
-HR
-Dollars (fangraphs stat)
-Salary (fangraphs stat)
-Batting value (fangraphs stat) [Vizquel and Kotsay were negative]
-WPA
-Clutch
-Grandiness
-RBI
-BB

You may not understand all of the stats, but just understand this, Jim Thome is a better offensive player than any player being considered for Guillen's "rotating DH" spot

Sure, there are absolutely signs of Thome's age coming around, like a steady decrease of his ISO since he joined the Sox (yet last year Thome still had a better ISO than Vizquel and Kotsay last year). But Thome is still walking at a constant rate, hitting fly balls and line drives at a fairly constant rate. Sure he's been swinging at pitches outside the zone more and more for the past three years, but he's also been making more and more contact with balls thrown outside the zone as well. Fact is, Jim Thome has a damn fine eye for pitches still (kind of goes along with DME's theory for why older players in baseball tend to be guys that also walk a lot) and can still be productive.

Jim Thome is without a doubt the Sox's best option at DH, can still play, and probably would not cost the Sox a lot. I see no downside to signing Thome and again am pissed at Kenny Williams being a dumbass.

Carl Skanberg summed it up nicely (Smells Like Mascot link on right and scroll down to the "Quest for DH" comic strip).