The Chicago White Sox’s offseason has officially kicked off in earnest one day before December with the announcement that catcher Omar Narváez has been traded to the Seattle Mariners for RP Alex Colomé. Pressed into starting duty after Welington Castillo’s PED suspension, Narváez broke out on offense. Omar had always been reliable for an above-average OBP […]
Author: Mark Primiano
White Sox Season in Review: James Shields
The White Sox current rebuild started on June 4, 2016 even though no one knew it at the time. For my 28th birthday, the Sox got me a heavily-used James Shields for the low, low cost (at the time) of Erik Johnson and Fernando Tatis Jr. Johnson looked like he could maybe soak up innings […]
White Sox Season in Review: Daniel Palka
As I alluded to in Wednesday’s article about Omar Narvaez, 2018 was a season short on things to celebrate for the White Sox and their fans. The team lost 100 games. Shortly before that, they lost their top pitching prospect for a year and a half. The remaining top prospects mostly underperformed or got hurt. Things […]
White Sox Season in Review: Omar Narvaez
While the vast majority of the 2018 Chicago White Sox season was filled with enough injuries, underproduction, and all-around soul-sapping depression strong enough to drag even the rosiest of rebuild optimists down into the muck and the mire, there were actually a few fun and interesting bright spots. And I actually get to write about […]
White Sox Season in Review: Michael Kopech
Sigh. This was supposed to be one of the happy write ups. One of the coveted Year in Reviews that you have to be the first person who signs into the Google Doc to claim. One of (if not the) top pitching prospects in all of baseball with electric stuff, charisma, and he’s ours? The […]
White Sox Season in Review: Lucas Giolito
It’s almost impossible to name a player who had a more disappointing season for the White Sox this year than poor Lucas Giolito. Sure, Michael Kopech wound up needing Tommy John but a pitcher getting hurt is more an accepted fact of life than a true disappointment. Yoan Moncada and Tim Anderson didn’t have the […]
White Sox Season in Review: Carson Fulmer
Walker Buehler threw seven strong innings for the Dodgers last night, striking out eight hitters while allowing four runs. His postseason has been rocky, but his rookie season was phenomenal: 8-5, 2.62 ERA, 151 K, 4.08 K:BB ratio, all over 137.1 IP. He’ll be in the conversation for National League Rookie of the Year, which is pretty much all […]
White Sox Season in Review: Adam Engel
It’s always important to have perspective. If you go through life making mountains out of molehills and forgetting to celebrate the small successes for what they are, you’ll be little more than a simpering heap of rage slowly marching towards your inescapable end. Perspective. It’s good for you. Adam Engel was drafted in the 19th […]
White Sox Season in Review: Matt Davidson
2018 was pretty much set up to be a make or break season for Matt Davidson. The former Top 100 prospect return for Addison Reed was coming off a disappointing 2017 that managed to include 26 home runs with a .711 OPS and a K:BB ratio of 165:19. Not exactly what you want or need […]
White Sox Season in Review: Welington Castillo
When your big offseason signing for the year is a 31-year-old catcher, it’s pretty safe to bet one of two things are happening: your team is damn near perfectly built to contend and almost entirely lacking in weak spots, or you’re punting the year but need someone to catch around 100 games. With this being […]