When it comes to evaluating Yoan Moncada, context matters. It’s easy to be disappointed with the second baseman after his first full season in the majors. The former No. 1 prospect in baseball and prize of the trade that sent new World Series champion Chris Sale to the Boston Red Sox has had his share […]
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White Sox Season In Review: Juan Minaya
If one wanted to, one could use Juan Minaya as a microcosm of the White Sox Rebuild and 2018 as a whole. Acquired off waivers from Houston in late June 2016, Minaya arrived right around the death of the last White Sox contention cycle. Like many players on the 2018 roster, he was not one of […]
White Sox Season In Review: A Bunch Of Other Pitchers
Miguel Gonzalez was essentially found money for the White Sox in 2017. Signed in spring training after the pitching-starved Orioles inexplicably cut him, Gonzalez threw 133 serviceable innings that year and was good enough to be flipped in August to the Texas Rangers for a live body in Ti’Quan Forbes. It was a nice outcome for […]
White Sox Season In Review: Reynaldo Lopez
There are two different lenses through which you can look at Reynaldo Lopez’s 2018 season. The first one is nice. Lopez made it through his first full season as a starting pitcher and did mostly fine. He threw 188 innings and posted a 3.91 ERA. It’s the type of season where you can look back […]
White Sox Season in Review: Michael Kopech
Sigh. This was supposed to be one of the happy write ups. One of the coveted Year in Reviews that you have to be the first person who signs into the Google Doc to claim. One of (if not the) top pitching prospects in all of baseball with electric stuff, charisma, and he’s ours? The […]
White Sox Season in Review: Nate Jones
The good news about Nate Jones is that he pitched nearly three times as many innings as he did in 2017. The bad news is that he pitched only 30 innings. Jones has been in the White Sox organization since 2007. That makes him far and away the longest tenured player on the team. He […]
White Sox Season in Review: Lucas Giolito
It’s almost impossible to name a player who had a more disappointing season for the White Sox this year than poor Lucas Giolito. Sure, Michael Kopech wound up needing Tommy John but a pitcher getting hurt is more an accepted fact of life than a true disappointment. Yoan Moncada and Tim Anderson didn’t have the […]
White Sox Season In Review: The Forgotten Catchers
The White Sox used five catchers in 2018, which is probably more than they had hoped to need when they added Welington Castillo as the starter ahead of solid backup options Omar Narvaez and Kevan Smith Things didn’t go quite as planned, of course. Castillo got an 80-game suspension for taking a banned substance, and […]
White Sox Season in Review: Leury Garcia
What does Leury Garcia need to do to get more playing time? Well, stay healthy for one. Garcia broke out in 2017, at least relative to his production in previous seasons. He matched his playing time through his first four seasons combined and slashed a respectable .270/.316/.423 while hitting nine home runs after hitting a […]
White Sox Season In Review: Avisail Garcia
2018 contained all of the vast, infuriating multitudes which combine to form Avisail Garcia. After a breakout 2017 campaign where Garcia mostly stayed healthy and actualized all of his weird profile — you know, where he looks like a classic middle of the order hitter but instead is driven by contact, hitting to opposite field, and […]