Having the opportunity to write about the White Sox in a space where White Sox fans regularly visit was a dream of mine long before there were things like fan blogs. I’ve wanted to write about baseball since I was 13 years old and I’ve been a White Sox fan for even longer. When I […]
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White Sox Make 40-Man Moves In Advance of Rule 5 Draft
While the site has gone dark of late as our staff has been working diligently on their portion of the 2019 Baseball Prospectus annual and White Sox Prospect List over at the main site, the White Sox announced they had added Dylan Cease, Kodi Medeiros, Seby Zevala, and Jordan Stephens to the 40-man roster. None […]
White Sox Season In Review: Hector Santiago, Kevan Smith
If you could have envisioned what Hector Santiago’s realistic median outcome performance would be when he signed a minor-league free agent deal with the White Sox in February, it would have been more or less exactly what we got. Santiago spent the duration of 2018 with the major league team after making the final cuts […]
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 […]
The Case for Going For It
White Sox fans hoping for a big leap forward at the major league level in 2018 were disappointed, to say the least. Yoan Moncada and Tim Anderson made a variety of improvements around the margins, but neither had a true breakout. Carlos Rodon and Reynaldo Lopez made some progress, but not enough to where you […]
White Sox Season In Review: Yolmer Sanchez
Yolmer Sanchez was the emotional center of the 2018 White Sox. He was fun and jovial and everything that’s easy to root for. His celebrations — on the rare occasion the White Sox had something worth celebrating — became instant viral sensations across baseball Twitter, and the stories from beat writers who interacted with him […]
White Sox Season In Review: Jose Rondon
Matt Davidson, Daniel Palka, Nicky Delmonico, Yolmer Sanchez, Omar Narvaez, Adam Engel. Those are just some of the guys who have taken advantage of the circumstances that surround the White Sox roster the last few years. If the White Sox were in a different situation — say, trying to contend — many of those players […]
White Sox Season In Review: Carlos Rodon
The question about Carlos Rodon for a few years now has been “When will he finally break out?” Four years into his professional career, though, it might be fair to now revise that down to “Will he ever break out?” For the last two years, it has seemed like the only thing holding Rodon back […]
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 […]