Spring training starts in earnest today, but if you’ve been paying any attention to Twitter you know that the majority of this season’s important players are already enjoying the weather on the back fields in Glendale, Ariz.. Editor emeritus and current Athletic sensation James Fegan is on the beat and captured my favorite image of […]
Author: Mark Primiano
The most valuable White Sox position player prospect of the Millennium
It’s been a long time since the White Sox had a single position player prospect worth getting as excited about as Yoan Moncada, Eloy Jimenez, or Luis Robert. Having a troika of players who should at worst be competent major leaguers is a delightful change and a reminder that things weren’t always so bleak. During […]
The beautiful, baffling brilliance of Esteban Loaiza’s 2003 season
One of the best things about baseball, from a narrative standpoint at least, is that it is the sport of second chances. The other leagues have the occasional Kurt Warner or Scott Darling story, but nothing close to the frequency and impressiveness that baseball does. Ron LeFlore was recruited out of prison. Evan Gattis was […]
Modern baseball fans and the burden of too much knowledge
This has been an incredibly dull winter. The Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes provided a brief bit of fun, but that was almost an entire month ago with practically nothing happening since. We’ve almost crowned a new national champion in college football and practically none of the top free agents have signed yet. It’s terrible. This terribleness […]
Seven Former White Sox on 2018 Hall of Fame Ballot
MLB released the 2018 Hall of Fame ballot Monday afternoon. The list consists of an absolutely absurd 33 candidates, some of whom will be unfairly looked over because of the stubborn insistence that each voter can only vote for 10 players per year regardless of backlog. There’s a good mix of slam dunk new candidates (Chipper […]
White Sox Season in Review: James Shields
It’s not always easy to pinpoint exactly when things began falling apart. In most cases, there are multiple incidents and causes that make shining the spotlight on one specific moment too broad of an oversimplification. But every so often, you find that perfect example. That one shining data point that makes everyone agree that, yeah, […]
White Sox Season in Review: Yolmer Sanchez
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 […]
White Sox Season in Review: Tyler Saladino
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 […]
White Sox Season in Review: Mike Pelfrey
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 […]
White Sox Season in Review: Jacob May, Juan Minaya
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 […]