For a franchise that gets to claim one of the best hitting catchers of all time as a team legend, the White Sox have spent more than their fair share of seasons wandering the desert in search of production at the backstop. For every stretch featuring a Ray Schalk, Sherm Lollar, Carlton Fisk, or A.J. […]
Author: Mark Primiano
Jose Abreu Needed Emergency Surgery for Testicular Torsion
As BP South Side’s resident medical expert, I’ve been asked to write about or at least help explain numerous injuries and surgeries that happen throughout the long baseball season. Yes, technically I’m a doctor of animals, but a body is a body and I can tell you when and what parts of a knee have […]
Eloy Jimenez Will Not Be Called Up This Year
In a rather disappointing press conference Monday afternoon, Rick Hahn announced officially that White Sox top prospect Eloy Jimenez will not be called up to the majors this season, effectively ending his 2018 season. Jimenez hit a combined .337/.384/.577 between Double- and Triple-A this season with his Charlotte numbers being even better (.355/.399/.597). His power numbers are up […]
Eloy Jimenez Should Be in the Majors
If you’re reading this, you already know the score: White Sox uberprospect Eloy Jimenez has hit .337/.386/.601 combined over Double-A and Triple-A this season. Since being promoted to Charlotte, all he’s done over 27 games is hit .376/.423/.693 while striking out a mere four more times than he’s walked in a league where he’s 5.6 […]
What is EPO and why would Welington Castillo use it?
A surprisingly useful side benefit of going into tremendous debt to become a dogtor has been applying my medical knowledge to baseball. I can describe injuries and recovery time tables with confidence after some remodeling from quadruped to human. But the one I get the most excited for is drugs. Drugs are drugs are drugs, […]
The White Sox Need to Spend This Winter
This is not a new thought nor does it qualify as particularly deep analysis but not every idea has to be new or cutting edge. Sometimes things just have to be. Things are starting to look up for the 2018 Chicago White Sox as they’ve won 4 of their last 6 for the first time […]
Checking in on Old Friends
We all knew the rebuild would be painful. That’s kind of the main aspect of a rebuild: growth through suffering. But this year was supposed to be a step forward and instead it’s the middle of May and the White Sox have the worst record in all of baseball by multiple games. Oh bad things […]
The Kansas City Royals Need to Shut Up
No one likes to lose. It’s why little kids flip Monopoly boards and unscrupulous adults move game pieces around when people leave the room. The entire point of competing is winning and when your job is competing at the highest level possible in your field, you might start taking umbrage at minor and imaginary slights. […]
Tim Anderson is Starting to Look Like the Player We’ve Hoped He’d Become
Despite a very entertaining Opening Day, the 2018 White Sox season hasn’t exactly gotten off to the greatest start. Losing four in a row to two teams that are fairly safe bets to finish last in their respective divisions can put quite the damper on any proceedings. No, this year isn’t supposed to officially mark […]
Waiting on Luis Robert
Sometimes there’s a blind spot. An uncorrectable weakness. A seemingly systemic Achilles’ heel that exists for reasons that don’t quite make sense. Think of the Chicago Bears’ practically perennial ineptitude at developing quarterbacks. You can recognize the flaw. It’s glaringly obvious as it stares you in the face, year in and year out. But there’s […]