Having the opportunity to write about the White Sox in a space where White Sox fans regularly visit was a dream of mine long before there were things like fan blogs. I’ve wanted to write about baseball since I was 13 years old and I’ve been a White Sox fan for even longer. When I […]
Author: Collin Whitchurch
White Sox Season In Review: Hector Santiago, Kevan Smith
If you could have envisioned what Hector Santiago’s realistic median outcome performance would be when he signed a minor-league free agent deal with the White Sox in February, it would have been more or less exactly what we got. Santiago spent the duration of 2018 with the major league team after making the final cuts […]
White Sox Season In Review: Yolmer Sanchez
Yolmer Sanchez was the emotional center of the 2018 White Sox. He was fun and jovial and everything that’s easy to root for. His celebrations — on the rare occasion the White Sox had something worth celebrating — became instant viral sensations across baseball Twitter, and the stories from beat writers who interacted with him […]
White Sox Season In Review: Jose Rondon
Matt Davidson, Daniel Palka, Nicky Delmonico, Yolmer Sanchez, Omar Narvaez, Adam Engel. Those are just some of the guys who have taken advantage of the circumstances that surround the White Sox roster the last few years. If the White Sox were in a different situation — say, trying to contend — many of those players […]
White Sox Season In Review: Carlos Rodon
The question about Carlos Rodon for a few years now has been “When will he finally break out?” Four years into his professional career, though, it might be fair to now revise that down to “Will he ever break out?” For the last two years, it has seemed like the only thing holding Rodon back […]
White Sox Season In Review: Yoan Moncada
When it comes to evaluating Yoan Moncada, context matters. It’s easy to be disappointed with the second baseman after his first full season in the majors. The former No. 1 prospect in baseball and prize of the trade that sent new World Series champion Chris Sale to the Boston Red Sox has had his share […]
White Sox Season In Review: A Bunch Of Other Pitchers
Miguel Gonzalez was essentially found money for the White Sox in 2017. Signed in spring training after the pitching-starved Orioles inexplicably cut him, Gonzalez threw 133 serviceable innings that year and was good enough to be flipped in August to the Texas Rangers for a live body in Ti’Quan Forbes. It was a nice outcome for […]
White Sox Season In Review: Reynaldo Lopez
There are two different lenses through which you can look at Reynaldo Lopez’s 2018 season. The first one is nice. Lopez made it through his first full season as a starting pitcher and did mostly fine. He threw 188 innings and posted a 3.91 ERA. It’s the type of season where you can look back […]
White Sox Season in Review: Nate Jones
The good news about Nate Jones is that he pitched nearly three times as many innings as he did in 2017. The bad news is that he pitched only 30 innings. Jones has been in the White Sox organization since 2007. That makes him far and away the longest tenured player on the team. He […]
White Sox Season In Review: The Forgotten Catchers
The White Sox used five catchers in 2018, which is probably more than they had hoped to need when they added Welington Castillo as the starter ahead of solid backup options Omar Narvaez and Kevan Smith Things didn’t go quite as planned, of course. Castillo got an 80-game suspension for taking a banned substance, and […]