1. The anticipation and excitement that comes with Opening Day make it almost impossible to not overreact, whether it’s to something bad or something good. Any reasonable baseball observer knows what happens only matters as much as any single game can. It’s an oft-repeated sentiment: It’s just one game. It’s a long season. Small sample sizes. Etc. It […]
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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 […]
Progress Redux: The Chicago White Sox 2018 Season Preview
In the context of sports, the word “narrative” gets thrown out all the time. When the White Sox won the World Series nearly 13 years ago, one of the narratives was that the team embraced the culture created by Ozzie Guillen and believed in each other, and that’s why they won. Narratives are important storytelling tools, […]
Futurespective: 2019 Prospect Pipeline
Thursday, 25 young (and some early middle aged) men will suit up in White Sox uniforms and take the field against the Kansas City Royals to kick off the 2018 season. This is not an article about those men. With a long rebuilding year ahead, we’re pressing fast forward and taking a look at the White […]
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 […]
2018 Season Preview: Position Players
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. Today’s post features the position players. Outfield Opening […]
Forced Perspective: What would make 2018 successful for Rick Hahn?
With opening day a few days out, the White Sox find themselves in a position similar to 2017 — still a bit away from contention conversations and focused on a long term rebuild. By wins and losses, 2018 is shaping up to be a dismal campaign. The prognosticators have the Sox pegged around 70 wins (PECOTA has […]
Predicting the White Sox Opening Day Roster
We’re less than a week from the White Sox breaking camp and there are at least a few decisions to be made regarding the make-up of the roster March 29 against the Royals. It’s important to remember that these decisions aren’t the end-all. Lest we forget, last year the White Sox broke camp with Cody […]
Do the White Sox have enough rotation depth?
The White Sox announced Sunday that James Shields will start Opening Day against the Royals next Thursday, an unsurprising decision given the injury to Carlos Rodon and inexperience of Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez. The news was nonetheless met with a certain amount of consternation as Shields’ continued presence on the roster and in the […]
Carson Fulmer and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad spring
Spring Training results may not matter, but Spring Training performances matter, at least to a certain extent. Carson Fulmer’s latest start on Wednesday — he walked three and allowed seven earned runs, including three home runs, in just 1 2/3 innings — qualifies as something that matters. The 24-year-old has now walked 10 and allowed […]