What does Leury Garcia need to do to get more playing time? Well, stay healthy for one. Garcia broke out in 2017, at least relative to his production in previous seasons. He matched his playing time through his first four seasons combined and slashed a respectable .270/.316/.423 while hitting nine home runs after hitting a […]
Author: Collin Whitchurch
White Sox Season In Review: Jace Fry
When writing player comments for the Baseball Prospectus Annual, as Nick Schaefer and I did for the White Sox a year ago, the first step in the process is submitting a list of players. The list runs deep — the one Nick and I submitted a year ago included about 75 players — accounting for every […]
White Sox Season In Review: Nicky Delmonico
If we’re being fair, Nicky Delmonico probably belongs more in the category of “guys who got playing time despite not really having a future with the team” than one where he gets a whole post all to himself. But I’m not being fair. I’ll justify this by saying that, coming into the season, there were […]
White Sox Season In Review: Cordell, LaMarre, Skole, Thompson, Tilson
The thing about running a baseball website is that you get to make decisions like “let’s do a review of every player who played for the White Sox in 2018.” You think to yourself “that’ll be neat, a nice little recap so people can get a good idea of, say, the progress Tim Anderson made, […]
White Sox Season In Review: Dylan Covey
For about one month early in the season Dylan Covey was A Thing. It was weird. Covey was never really in consideration to make the White Sox entering the season. After a 2017 in which he was thrown to the wolves as a Rule 5 pick forced into major league action before he was ready, Covey […]
White Sox Season In Review: Bummer, Danish, Farquhar, Vieira
Aaron Bummer When the White Sox sent Aaron Bummer to Triple-A following a June 2 loss to the Brewers, it was a bit surprising. In 26 appearances to that point, Bummer had thrown 19 1/3 innings with 21 strikeouts against just six walks and a respectable 3.26 ERA. Still, the underlying numbers told us he […]
The Catbird Speaks 10.2.18: Sixty-Two and One Hundred
The White Sox 2018 season is over. They went 62-100. Nick Schaefer, Collin Whitchurch, and Frank Firke got together to talk about it. Among the subjects: -The general disappointment of the pitching staff. What to make of Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, and Carlos Rodon going forward. -The fact that there’s still hope for Yoan Moncada, […]
White Sox Season in Review: Tim Anderson
On the surface, 2018 wasn’t all that different than 2017 for Tim Anderson offensively. a .240/.281/.406 line and 85 wRC+ isn’t anything overwhelmingly special. He’s still a free swinger, although he did post minimal improvements in both his walk rate (2.1 to 5.0 percent) and strikeout rate (26.7 to 24.6 percent). He also showed more power with […]
White Sox Season In Review: Jose Abreu
It feels like we’ve been anticipating Jose Abreu’s downfall for most of his career. That isn’t exactly hyperbole. Even after he burst onto the season with a Rookie of the Year-winning performance in 2014, as a large-bodied, plodding first baseman already in his late 20s when he got to America, it has always felt as […]
Well That Certainly Was A White Sox Season
Are the White Sox closer to a championship today than they were six months ago? When looking back at the last six months of baseball, that’s the question I’ve found myself pondering. There’s a lot of noise during the course of a 162-game season, and sorting out what matters and what doesn’t isn’t always easy. […]