Although Manny Ramirez has yet to play one game for the Chicago White Sox, questions are already popping up as far as what he’ll do next year.

‘I go into this with an open mind,” Williams said. ”He is our DH right now. Let’s see how it goes; let’s see how he fits. Let’s see how we all end up and what we have to work with dollarwise next year. But that’s 2011. ‘Let’s worry about 2010 now’ is my message to everyone.”

Ramirez is a free agent after this season, and his future salary could come down to what he does for the White Sox this last month of the season. He’s been injured for much of this year, and because he’ll have the opportunity to get at-bats without being a defensive liability by playing DH, it may help him secure a decent deal this off-season.

He made $20 million this season, but given his lackluster year, it’ll be tough for him to find something that big. However, you can’t count out his agent, Scott Boras. Boras has been known to create value for his clients.

Information from Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times was used in this article.