The White Sox have fallen to 9-23, better only than the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds. With Avisail Garcia and Yoan Moncada joining Carlos Rodon on the disabled list, a lineup with plenty of weaknesses has gotten even weaker, despite the continued improvements of Matt Davidson and Tim Anderson. So, even with the starting rotation […]
Author: Nick Schaefer
South Side Morning 5: Out of Oakland & A Fun Announcement
Well, that’s over with! The White Sox just limped out of Oakland with another three losses thrown on the pile. The series was a dark parody of the bouts between the good White Sox and A’s teams of the early-to-mid-2000s. The A’s still won in either dominant or hilariously lucky fashion a whole lot, with […]
It’s Still Too Early To Decide Anything
The White Sox haven’t exactly faced a bruising schedule. They sit 4-10, with nine of those games coming against Kansas City, Detroit, and Tampa Bay, teams with strong cases for Worst In The AL. The other four games have been against Toronto and Minnesota. Solid teams, but they aren’t exactly the Astros or Cleveland either. […]
Does Matt Davidson’s promising start mean anything?
Think back, if you can, to Opening Day, when Matt Davidson hit three home runs and set off all of the Statcast Twitter accounts because of just how hard he hit them. Understandably, though, one game isn’t enough to revise your opinion on someone. Mallex Smith had four hits on Monday and this article is […]
South Side Morning 5: Tigers Sweep? I’m Not Mad, You’re Mad
Friday was frustrating, but as Collin wrote, good stuff happened and veteran relievers blowing a game is not cause for panic or canceling the rebuild. I have not revised my opinion of Nate Jones or Joakim Soria as a result. In a rebuilding season, losing three games against the Tigers shouldn’t matter in and of […]
White Sox v. Royals Opening Day: This Time, It’s Academic
For the bulk of the last decade at least one of these two teams had some realistic dream of contention. To be sure, and to their credit, the Royals haven’t abandoned all hope in 2018, doing what more teams should have done and adding free agents simply because it made their team better. Lucas Duda […]
2018 Season Preview: The Pitchers
Tuesday and Wednesday, the staff at BP South Side will be providing quick-hit takes on the different White Sox positional groups, making predictions on who will be the regular starters at different points in the season, as well as offering optimistic takes, pessimistic takes, and hot takes. Tuesday’s’s post featured the position players and today […]
White Sox Make First Wave of Spring Training Roster Moves
The White Sox announced a number of roster moves Tuesday afternoon, the bulk of which are unsurprising, although a couple were at least worth some thought. As for obvious moves, the injured Jake Burger was assigned to minor league camp. So too was Jordan Guerrero, who has yet to pitch above Double-A, and defensive specialist […]
Projecting the White Sox: The Devil is in the Details
PECOTA is pretty great, but it isn’t without its flaws. There are some things it simply cannot predict about players. Sure, it can identify players with playing time suddenly cut short were likely injured, as the comps pulled by the algorithm are likely going to find similar playing time dips caused by injury. But sudden […]
The Top 101 Is Loaded With White Sox
The 101 is here! As a White Sox fan, for many years the 101 was like being the sad little Dickensian child on Christmas morning, nose pressed against the window of a happy family, watching other, happier children open their presents. “Maybe Addison Reed squeaked into the back of the list!” I’d say, shivering in […]