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 […]
Author: Mark Primiano
White Sox Season in Review: Avisail Garcia
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 […]
Rodon’s precarious season will linger into 2018 after shoulder surgery
With 2017 being essentially a year free of the worries of competition for the Chicago White Sox, one of the main selling points for fan enjoyment was watching the young talent that was left behind develop and hopefully take that next step. The results were a bit of a mixed bag. Avisail Garcia finally broke […]
Chris Sale, Felix Hernandez, and the Road Not Taken
Usually every Felix Hernandez start against the White Sox makes me think of former-failed prospect Brian Anderson taking a young King Felix yard twice for his first two career home runs. Watching Anderson’s blonde mop bounce up and down as he grinned like a child while that damn foghorn sounded in the background of Safeco […]
Melky Cabrera is a treasure
The past decade has not been a great one to be a White Sox fan. This fall will mark the ninth straight season without a playoff appearance, and that 3-1 rout by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 ALDS was hardly a series to remember. Only the Seattle Mariners (2001 ALCS), Miami Marlins (2003 […]
Why is MLB so bad at marketing star players?
Baseball isn’t dying. We know this is true because every year when the articles and tweets announcing baseball’s supposed continual slide into impending doom hit, a counter swell of information blows back with actual facts and data stating that things are actually fine, just fine. It’s a painfully silly cycle that is good for reminding […]
Chicago White Sox reportedly signing star Cuban outfielder Luis Robert
The hunt for the last big Cuban signing possible under the old international free agent rules is over: the White Sox are signing Luis Robert. Ken Rosenthal reported it first with Jon Heyman confirming the news shortly thereafter. This, quite frankly, is huge. In 53 games as a 19 year old in the Cuban National Series, Robert […]
Where in the world is Brett Lawrie?
There are approximately one thousand things you could call Brett Lawrie, but uninteresting has never been one of them. From his early prospect days as a tatted-up youth playing Edward Fortyhands to a slightly more mature young adult with a vampire mouthguard and a love for playing DJ in the clubhouse, his blood comprising at least […]
What the hell happened to the Royals?
The past four years have been high times for the Kansas City Royals. It’s hard enough in baseball’s modern era to make consecutive World Series appearances, much less actually win the whole thing. 2013-2016 also marked the first four year stretch for the Royals in which they did not have a sub-.500 season since 1977-1980. […]
How do the White Sox farm affiliate names rank against their peers?
Not everyone gets to live in or near a major league city but sometimes if you’re lucky enough, you get to at least experience the joys that come with having a minor league team in your backyard. I am currently one of those blessed many. I drive past Cashman Field, home of the Las Vegas […]