The Cleveland Browns' roster still needs major work. Their front office is starting to shape up.

New general manager John Dorsey tapped into his NFL connections to improve the winless Browns Saquon Barkley Jersey , adding former Green Bay executives Eliot Wolf and Alonzo Highsmith on Wednesday in the club's first major moves in a significant offseason.

Dorsey played linebacker for the Packers and spent time working in the club's front office with Wolf and Highsmith, two highly regarded talent evaluators with solid reputations.

The 35-year-old Wolf, who is considered a rising star in the league, will serve as Dorsey's assistant while Highsmith, a former NFL running back, is the Browns' vice president of player personnel.

"We're lucky to add Alonzo and Eliot to our personnel staff," said Dorsey, who was hired last month by owner Jimmy Haslam.

"Alonzo's 25 years of experience in the National Football League as a player, scout and personnel executive give him a unique perspective when it comes to evaluating talent and building a team.

"Alonzo and I share the same passion for this great game of football. We are going to set out to find talented football players that possess that same passion for the game.

"Eliot has been a fine executive in this league for some time now. It's been great to watch him grow up around this league when I was with him in Green Bay and from afar for the last five-plus years. He's been a big reason for the consistent success the Packers have experienced over the last decade."

Wolf spent 14 seasons with the Packers Cheap Customized Houston Texans Jerseys , working as the club's director of football operations for the past two. He recently interviewed for the Green Bay GM job that went to Brian Gutekunst and Wolf was reportedly offered a spot to work in Oakland with Raiders' GM Reggie McKenzie. Dorsey, McKenzie and Wolf all worked together in Green Bay.

But the son of Hall of Fame executive Ron Wolf is instead joining the Browns, still crawling from the wreckage of a 0-16 season while preparing for a draft in which they'll have the No. 1 overall pick and four in the top 35.

"I really like the direction of where leadership is headed," Wolf said. "We're going to build this team the right way and to be a part of that from the ground up is going to be special."

Highsmith spent 19 years in Green Bay's scouting department. After starring at Miami, Highsmith was the No. 3 overall pick in the 1987 draft by the Houston Oilers.

"This is going to be an exciting challenge," Highsmith said. "It's great to reunite with John Dorsey. He is someone I've looked up to and has always been a mentor to me. We had great success together in Green Bay and we both understand the hard work it takes to create a winning environment.

"I'm grateful to have the opportunity to be part of something special. Some of my fondest memories in football were playing the Browns in the playoffs one year and the fans throwing dog bones at us so we had to turn around and play that series at the opposite end zone."

Dorsey's hiring of Wolf and Highsmith is a return to a more "traditional" football model for Cleveland's front office, which emphasized analytics in two failed seasons under fired vice president of football operations Sashi Brown.

Dorsey has also brought in former co-workers in Kansas City, adding Jimmy Noel as assistant director of pro scouting, Matt Donahoe as a scout and Dan Zegers as personnel coordinator.

All three worked with the Chiefs under Dorsey Colts Kemoko Turay Jersey , who was surprisingly let go by the team in June after four seasons.

The Browns also said Ken Kovash, a vice president of player personnel the past two seasons, will transition to a role in the club's strategy department under Paul DePodesta.

Ryan Grigson, a senior personnel executive, has been dismissed.

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The Chicago White Sox have a chance to complete their first three-game sweep of the season when they face the Minnesota Twins in the series finale Thursday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Chicago (28-51) is coming off back-to-back wins by margins of 8-4 and 6-1 over the Twins in the series' first two games. The White Sox have won three straight, including a 10-3 decision over the Oakland Athletics on Sunday afternoon.

A win Thursday would give the White Sox their longest win streak of the season.

Minnesota (34-42) is hoping to salvage a win in the series and turn around a tough week for the club. The Twins have dropped two in a row and five of their past six to fall eight games below .500, which is tied with their low-water mark for the season.

White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito (5-7, 7.01 ERA) will try to build upon his recent improvement in his 16th start of the season. The highly touted 23-year-old has struggled badly with command this year, but has 14 strikeouts and only four walks in his past two outings.

Giolito is 1-2 with a 4.42 ERA in three career starts against Minnesota. Two of those starts took place this season Authentic Customized Seahawks Jerseys , with the 6-foot-6, 245-pounder posting a 1-1 record with a 3.65 ERA.

Lately, Giolito has found success by not thinking so much about his pitching mechanics.

"It's been kind of a long road to figure that out," Giolito said to his team's official website. "But I'm definitely in a much better place right now with that, just letting it flow. The key words are let it flow. Just go out there and be athletic. …

"It's like the desire to be as good as I can be to the point where I've overanalyzed things and been like, 'What am I doing wrong? What should I fix? What can I fix?'

"I'm doing that instead of being like, 'Hey, I'm here, I'm going to compete and let it all happen and just be athletic and let what I've been doing for years take over.'"

The Twins will counter with right-hander Jake Odorizzi (3-5 Cheap DJ Moore Jersey , 4.97 ERA) for his 17th start of the season. The Illinois native has 80 strikeouts in 79 2/3 innings this season, but his walk rate (4.1 per nine innings) is the highest since his rookie campaign in 2012 with the Kansas City Royals.

Odorizzi is 1-2 with a 4.13 ERA in five career starts against the White Sox. He has an 0-1 record with a 5.23 ERA (six earned runs in 10 1/3 innings) in two starts against Chicago this season.

Avisail Garcia has homered in back-to-back games for the White Sox and could pose a challenge for Odorizzi, who has given up 14 long balls this year. Jose Abreu also is coming off a much better day at the plate in which he slammed his 12th home run and showed signs of breaking out of a slump.

For the Twins, Ehire Adrianza carries a hot bat into the series finale. He went 4-for-4 with a double and an RBI on Wednesday night, elevating his season average to .264 with four homers and 17 RBIs.

Chicago is 16-26 at home; Minnesota is 14-22 on the road.

After the game, the Twins will stay in Chicago and head about 8 miles north to take on the Cubs in a weekend series. Minnesota is 6-6 in interleague action compared with a 28-36 record against AL teams.

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