Walker Buehler threw seven strong innings for the Dodgers last night, striking out eight hitters while allowing four runs. His postseason has been rocky, but his rookie season was phenomenal: 8-5, 2.62 ERA, 151 K, 4.08 K:BB ratio, all over 137.1 IP. He’ll be in the conversation for National League Rookie of the Year, which is pretty much all […]
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White Sox Season in Review: Ryan Burr, Ian Hamilton, Caleb Frare
On the one hand, the arguments to draft Zack Burdi with the 26th overall pick in 2016 were pretty clear: relievers are playing a bigger role on major league rosters than ever before, and Burdi looked like a basically ready-to-go out of the box late inning reliever, with huge velocity and two potential plus secondary […]
White Sox Season In Review: Jace Fry
When writing player comments for the Baseball Prospectus Annual, as Nick Schaefer and I did for the White Sox a year ago, the first step in the process is submitting a list of players. The list runs deep — the one Nick and I submitted a year ago included about 75 players — accounting for every […]
White Sox Season in Review: Adam Engel
It’s always important to have perspective. If you go through life making mountains out of molehills and forgetting to celebrate the small successes for what they are, you’ll be little more than a simpering heap of rage slowly marching towards your inescapable end. Perspective. It’s good for you. Adam Engel was drafted in the 19th […]
White Sox Season In Review: Nicky Delmonico
If we’re being fair, Nicky Delmonico probably belongs more in the category of “guys who got playing time despite not really having a future with the team” than one where he gets a whole post all to himself. But I’m not being fair. I’ll justify this by saying that, coming into the season, there were […]
White Sox Season in Review: Matt Davidson
2018 was pretty much set up to be a make or break season for Matt Davidson. The former Top 100 prospect return for Addison Reed was coming off a disappointing 2017 that managed to include 26 home runs with a .711 OPS and a K:BB ratio of 165:19. Not exactly what you want or need […]
White Sox Season In Review: Cordell, LaMarre, Skole, Thompson, Tilson
The thing about running a baseball website is that you get to make decisions like “let’s do a review of every player who played for the White Sox in 2018.” You think to yourself “that’ll be neat, a nice little recap so people can get a good idea of, say, the progress Tim Anderson made, […]
White Sox Season In Review: Dylan Covey
For about one month early in the season Dylan Covey was A Thing. It was weird. Covey was never really in consideration to make the White Sox entering the season. After a 2017 in which he was thrown to the wolves as a Rule 5 pick forced into major league action before he was ready, Covey […]
White Sox Season in Review: Welington Castillo
When your big offseason signing for the year is a 31-year-old catcher, it’s pretty safe to bet one of two things are happening: your team is damn near perfectly built to contend and almost entirely lacking in weak spots, or you’re punting the year but need someone to catch around 100 games. With this being […]
White Sox Season In Review: Bummer, Danish, Farquhar, Vieira
Aaron Bummer When the White Sox sent Aaron Bummer to Triple-A following a June 2 loss to the Brewers, it was a bit surprising. In 26 appearances to that point, Bummer had thrown 19 1/3 innings with 21 strikeouts against just six walks and a respectable 3.26 ERA. Still, the underlying numbers told us he […]