Yoan Moncada strikes out a lot. It’s bad, but it’s not the worst thing in the world; even leading the league, with 190 Ks as of this writing, he’s still hitting near-league average and a worthwhile everyday player as a 23 year-old second baseman, becoming a perfect example of how “bust” is a label that […]
Author: Frank Firke
Sartorially Scouting the Sox
One of the reasons the White Sox played two afternoon weekdays in a row to begin this week was they had a charity gala at the United Center Tuesday evening. I’d initially put this out of my mind until pictures of the Sox players dressed for a formal event began to fill up the White Sox Twitter […]
White Sox Season in Review: Adam Engel, Nicky Delmonico
Over the next few weeks, BP South Side will be reviewing the performance of all 51 players who suited up for the 2017 White Sox. Players whose seasons were particularly noteworthy will get their own standalone article, while smaller contributors or those who were traded/cut will be grouped together. We’ll do our best to summarize and […]
Notes from Saberseminar 2017 featuring Rick Hahn
The 2017 installment of Saberseminar, the excellent annual baseball research conference, took place last weekend in Boston on behalf of the Angioma Alliance. (Disclosure: Baseball Prospectus is a keynote sponsor of the event, and co-organizer Dan Brooks is an author for BP.) Like most years, the talks and panels were a mix of front office […]
Checking in on White Sox trade targets
On the eve of the season, we posted a set of expectations for the players on the White Sox roster. Given the shape of the roster and the trades over the winter, it’s not surprising that our expectations for several of the players was that they’d get traded during the course of the year. While […]
Let’s Regress Avisail Garcia’s Small Sample
Through Wednesday’s game in New York, Avisail Garcia ranks 24th on the Baseball Prospectus hitter WARP leaderboard with 0.69, a hair behind Francisco Lindor and a hair ahead of Corey Seager and Kris Bryant; it’s a pretty nice group of guys to be in the middle of. It’s impossible to ignore that the others are MVP caliber, […]
Worrying about rotation depth
One of the problems the 2017 White Sox won’t share with their predecessors is a crippling lack of position player depth. Not because they have more depth than in the past, but because gaps on the position player side aren’t really a problem if you don’t care about winning games — if you lose a couple […]
Sox base thieves on the verge of breaking a shameful streak
Following a team in mid-September that’s out of the race is not the most pleasant thing to do. With the White Sox not having any September call-ups of note, one of the greater sources of suspense is following along for statistical milestones. Some of those jump out from scanning a stat sheet—Jose Abreu’s hunt for […]
A guaranteed missed opportunity
As you’ve likely seen by now, the White Sox announced a long-term deal to rename their stadium to Guaranteed Rate Field, with the 13-year agreement going into effect November 1. From a strictly dollars and cents perspective, the news is somewhere between neutral and good; from a more important perspective, it’s an example of this […]
White Sox takeaways from Saberseminar
The 2016 iteration of Saberseminar, a conference devoted to baseball scouting, statistics, and sports science, took place in Boston this past weekend. In roughly 12 hours of baseball presentations across two days, it was inevitable that topics relevant to every team would pop up; here are the portions of my notebook that pertain to the White Sox. In […]