It's the end of January and Jim Thome is one of many veteran free agents who still find themselves unemployed. Earlier this week Thome expressed his interest in returning to the Chicago White Sox, but it doesn't look like that interest is reciprocal, so if Thome is going to hit the 36 homers he still needs to reach 600 in his career, he'll have to look elsewhere.So if Thome can't return to the White Sox, why not sign with one of their division rivals?
That seems to be a very real possibility as the word out of Minnesota is that the Twins are thinking of adding the left-handed masher to their roster.
The 
The Chicago White Sox solidified the back of their bullpen and gave themselves some options on Friday afternoon, as it was announced that they'd signed reliever J.J. Putz to a one-year, $3 million deal that includes up to $3 million in bonuses based on his performance. The 32-year old reliever is coming off a down season with the New York Mets that ended prematurely when he needed surgery to have a bone spur removed from his right elbow on June 9.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Not sure if you heard, but there was a trade involving an AL Central team at the annual Winter Meetings. The 
INDIANAPOLIS -- Managers of nine different major league teams each had approximately 30-minutes in interview sessions with the media during baseball's Winter Meetings Monday in the Indianapolis, in addition to the announcement of two new inductees to baseball's Hall of Fame. Here's a sampling of some of the more interesting tidbits from the first full day of the annual meetings. 
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