If they are pursuing him that money should have been spent on Buehrle.
No way. One of the White Sox better moves in the last three years was letting Buehrle walk. 4 years/$58 million was outrageous money to pay a 33-year old pitcher who had already pitched 2500 innings in the majors.
He's pretty much a mediocre pitcher that has an occasional brilliant start who is 25-23 over the last two seasons with an ERA of 4. He doesn't strike out many hitters and plenty of those groundball outs he got for Toronto last year would have been hits and errors if he had the pathetic 2013 White Sox infield behind him.
The good points of Buehrle were he worked fast, he gave you 200+ IP a season, he didn't walk many hitters (but he did give up a heck of a lot of hits) and his teammates and the fans loved him. But it's been 8 seasons since I thought "Boy I'm glad Buehrle's on the bump tonight since this is a big game the White Sox need to win!"