Friday brought the White Sox bizarre clubhouse scandal its first shift away from a weird debate over Adam LaRoche‘s child-rearing. Unfortunately, it’s because it became a more direct story of organizational discord, with franchise player Chris Sale, and LaRoche — who might have an even bigger national profile these days — calling team president Kenny Williams a liar. Sale, […]
Author: James Fegan
LaRoche snafu puts White Sox in unkind national spotlight
The White Sox have comfortably operated with unchecked weirdness outside the national spotlight for some time now, in a place where the franchise player tearing into team president Kenny Williams is variations on a theme, not breaking news.
South Side Morning 5: Not all of these items are about Adam LaRoche
Those who might wish this Adam LaRoche story–its bizarre controversy, its inability to fit into any defined box for rational debate, and its potential to rip focus away from a promising season–would just go away, are not going to have a very good St. Patrick’s Day.
Adam LaRoche’s retirement gets explained, and becomes more confusing
Hard to imagine anyone was foolish enough to speculate that Adam LaRoche‘s decision to retire Tuesday was based on fringe issues like mounting injuries and declining skills. Naturally it was a dispute prompted by a disagreement over the regularity with which LaRoche could bring his son to the clubhouse, of course.
Adam LaRoche’s somber exit
White Sox fans could be forgiven for not giving thought to Adam LaRoche the person much before Tuesday afternoon. After all, it wasn’t really their place. Even clubhouse tales of LaRoche’s character and integrity could be filed away as intangible considerations for figuring the value of LaRoche the player, and after a miserable 2015 season, […]
South Side Morning 5: The search for swag
1. Rick Hahn sat down with Brett Ballantini for a Q&A about the White Sox offseason for MLB Trade Rumors, and reaffirmed a lot of the dominant themes of the offseason. He insisted that the Sox were “in” on major free agent targets but alluded to “not economic-based” reasons why they did not land in […]
South Side Morning 5: Erik Johnson’s troubling start
There are starters for whom a few ugly Spring outings and reports of velocity loss can be shrugged off. Those starters are not Erik Johnson.
Rick Hahn’s offseason review: Todd Frazier
To start things off at BP South Side, we are reviewing the offseason moves of White Sox GM Rick Hahn in a staff-wide series. To start, James Fegan reviews the general themes of the White Sox offseason, and the biggest acquisition of the Winter, third baseman Todd Frazier.
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Chris Sale is the best show in baseball
This post originally appeared on Baseball Prospectus The best show in baseball is tucked away on the South side of Chicago, where it’s lived the past four years in a half-filled stadium, playing in front of the smallest TV audience in the league, striving for meaning and finding none.