Monday, when previously rumored news that major league baseball was banning hazing practices that compelled rookies to dress up as women became official–among other restrictions–there was unsurprisingly a scattered collection of irritation from players who had been through the ritual in their career. Kevin Youkilis expressed outrage and said he was proud of the Hooters costume […]
Author: James Fegan
Who is left to trade?
BP South Side has a house style that involves linking player names to their Baseball Prospectus player pages, and it’s necessary to make all of these links manually, so know that I am definitely not intentionally embellishing this list of still tradable players on the White Sox major league roster. Jose Quintana, Jose Abreu, Nate […]
First week of White Sox rebuilding showcases Hahn at his best
At the risk of bringing up old stuff, Rick Hahn has been the king of Winter Meetings before. Just these past two years have seen him holding press conference to graciously discuss some degree of a coup he had just pulled off. Last Winter he made a deal for Brett Lawrie in exchange for a pair […]
White Sox rebuild off to the inspiring start it needed
A funny thing happened on the way to me putting together a sentimental retrospective about getting to watch the beginning of Chris Sale‘s career: the White Sox knocked away my focus with their massive Adam Eaton trade. The second shocking blockbuster vaulted the Sox’ still growing farm system into the top-10 in baseball, before they have […]
Sale is gone – BPSS Roundtable
On Tuesday, the White Sox executed the first and most daring step of long-rumored rebuild: they traded Chris Sale to Boston in return for top-prospect Yoan Moncada, extremely live arm Michael Kopech, a far from irrelevant secondary prospect Luis Basabe and right-handed relief prospect Victor Diaz. While we can look at this package, see a […]
Maybe the White Sox will do something this week
A new Collective Barganing Agreement in place, the Winter Meetings opening this weekend, and scores of Chris Sale rumors circulating have eliminated any conceivable obstacle to the beginning of the teardown. They might as well. Beyond strangely and cryptically half-committing to a rebuild already, the White Sox offseason has been listless and inactive, unless it’s interpreted […]
That cost-cutting new CBA sure could help the White Sox
Reports that a new Collective Bargaining Agreement was reached Wednesday night are great, because it means the White Sox can finally get down to the happy business of trading Chris Sale for 19-year-olds. Numerous, brilliant, skinny 19-year-olds. Let the celebration begin. But! There could be still be other benefits for the White Sox as well. Hardcore luxury taxes […]
A small concession in the Chris Sale trade market for the sake of optics
Given middle of the road franchise ambitions, middle of the road talent, and middle of the road results, it’s understandable that the White Sox fan base has recently found an appeal to extremism. They now crave the most extreme rebuild possible, and holding out for the biggest trade return possible for their impressive crop of […]
Why would Chris Sale’s value be going up?
Why would this be the case? Hearing Chris Sale price tag still high. “Maybe even higher” than in july. Still, there’s hope for a winter meeting auction — Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) November 25, 2016 Well, posturing. Posturing is a really good explanation. The next leaked rumor of the White Sox shopping someone that isn’t married […]
What I am thankful for
Now is the time to live moment to moment. There is room for a longview, but an extreme longview, one that sees over the clearing where we sit in the present, beyond the treetops of our immediate future to the larger arc of progress of existence itself drifting, at times, aimlessly in the sky. Take […]