Look! In left field! It's Juan Podsednik! or is it Scott Pierre?...

I don’t understand why everyone is so excited about the Juan Pierre signing. If you compare his stats to Scotty Pods, they are almost identical. Sure, statistically Pierre looks like a great ball player. He's a career .300 hitter and will steal you 30+ bases a year. As a lead-off hitter, those are pretty good numbers. But look a little closer at his stats. His career on base % is 348; career batting average is .301; what does that mean? That means that unless Pierre gets a hit he probably won't get on base. He averages 38 walks a season. For the Sox offense to produce, they are going to need men on base. This is not a team that is going to hit 200 homeruns like they did 8 out of the last 10 years (the 2 years they didn't? 2007 & 2009; Combined win/loss those years? 151-173.) This White Sox team is going to depend on pitching and defense to win games... they are not going to out-slug many teams, even in the homer friendly Comiskey Park.
Speaking of pitching and defense...(segue!) Defensively, it’s pretty much a wash between Pierre and Pods. Pods is probably worse at reading and judging fly balls but his arm is stronger and more accurate than the wet noodle Pierre is carrying around.
Kenny has made it a point to get better defensively. He traded for Mark Teahan to play 3rd and is moving "Our Lord and Savior" Gordan Beckham to 2nd. Alex Rios is more than solid in CF and Carlos Quentin is an upgrade over JD in right. I think Omar Vizquel is going end up being the biggest off-season signing. Vizquel has won 11 Gold Gloves at shortstop in his 21 year career. He will be able to teach Alexai how to play the position and will serve as the late inning defensive replacement.
The starting pitching should rival any rotation in baseball. Jake Peavy, Mark Buerhle, Gavin Floyd, Johnny Danks and "Big Game" Sweddy Freddy... impressive.
The bullpen is still a bit of a question mark. If Putz can come back healthy from his elbow problems last year, and Bobby Jenks: A) stays with the team and 2) closes out games like we've seen him do, teamed with Matt "I throw 95mph without trying" Thorton, then the Sox should have one of the better back ends of the bullpen in baseball. The bridge/long relief portion of the bullpen is still up in the air with DJ Carrasco not being offered a deal. Someone will have to step up to eat the innings and be the unsung hero of the bullpen like Carrasco was last year.
If Kenny doesn't add another offensive player the Sox will probably roll out an opening day lineup looking something like this:

Juan Pierre LF
Gordan Beckham 2B
Carlos Quentin RF
Paul Konerko 1B
Alex Rios CF
AJ Pierzynski C
Andrew Jones/Mark Kotsay DH
Alexai Ramirez SS
Mark Teahan 3B

Not exactly a lineup that is going to strike fear into the hearts of opposing pitchers, but at least we have an unquestioned leadoff hitter heading into spring training, which is nice.