FIXED Last spring, reliever Matt Thornton's first outing with the White Sox was a total mess: a couple of walks, a big fly. Afterward, the ex-Mariner was worried about the wrath of his new manager, but Ozzie Guillén told him, "That's the way to throw the ball, kid." Says Thornton now, "I looked at him and thought, Are you really that crazy?" Thornton couldn't throw strikes with Seattle, but after one piece of advice from Sox pitching coach Don Cooper -- stride as far as you can and throw to the glove -- the hard-throwing lefty cut his walks from 42 in 57 IPs in '05 to just 21 in 54 IPs last year. Way to throw the ball, kid.

NEEDS FIXING After dealing CF Aaron Rowand to Philly in late 2005, GM Kenny Williams gushed about young Brian Anderson. But after the rookie hit only .225 in '06, Williams signed veteran Darin Erstad -- perhaps for the bench, but more likely to take Anderson's job. "He just doesn't look comfortable," one AL advance scout says of Anderson. "He presses a lot, and they put some pressure on him." With Williams and Guillén around, that won't change.

MIDSEASON FIX "I don't know if I should disclose that information." -- Aaron Rowand, when asked on a Philadelphia radio show if GM Williams told him he'd try to bring him back to Chicago.
-- Buster Olney