PECOTA has been released for a few weeks now, but there’s always plenty to digest in the weeks leading up to Opening Day. One of my favorite aspects of PECOTA to look at around this time of year is the player comparisons, something that is far from gospel but at least somewhat useful in that: “it […]
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Lucas Giolito threw pitches and Yoan Moncada fielded them in a real, live baseball game
The stage for the first glimpse of the White Sox future was an inconspicuous Spring Training game that took place before the calendar even read March and ended in a tie. The White Sox 4-4 draw with the Cubs on Monday was much like other Spring Training games — that is to say, unmemorable — […]
Mark Buehrle was awesome
I did a Q&A with C70 at the Bat the other day, which I believe will be running next week, in which they quickly preview all of the teams in the majors with bloggers or writers who cover those teams. The last question posed was “Who is your favorite White Sox player of all-time and why?” This […]
Sizing Up The Competition: Kansas City Royals
This is part two of a four-part series looking at the potential strength of the AL Central in the mid-term, given that the White Sox are no longer concerned with 2017. Today we turn to the familiar bête noire of Kansas City. In a sense, the Royals had some of the same tough decisions to make as the […]
Depth still matters for teams like the White Sox
The reasons why the White Sox found themselves in a position where contention no longer seemed palpable are aplenty. In order for a team to get to a point where selling off their two best players for prospects and pushing their competitive window back several years seems like the best course of action, plenty of poor […]
The Oddity of the White Sox Rebuild
Many White Sox fans were overjoyed this offseason to finally see the team choose a direction. After years of being “mired in mediocrity,” fans and management alike were tired of providing half-measures to try to compete in the present. With that in mind, Rick Hahn pulled off incredible back-to-back trades during the Winter Meetings. In […]
Betting on the quiet competence of Omar Narvaez
One of the most puzzling decisions the White Sox made going into the 2016 season, a season fully meant to be one resulting in at least a Wild Card chase, was replacing Tyler Flowers and Geovany Soto’s perfectly serviceable seasons at catcher with a platoon of Dioner Navarro and Alex Avila. The company line about […]
Alex Reyes Injury Brings Sobering Thoughts
It’s no secret that all pitchers carry injury risk. Even more concern surrounds young pitchers who may not have adjusted properly to the workload required to play professional baseball. This is evident in the many different forms of innings limits we’ve seen around the league in recent years, most notably in the cases of Stephen […]
Charlie Tilson has leg up but will need his speed
During Rick Hahn’s first media session of Spring Training on Tuesday, he was asked about the possibility of the White Sox still adding one-year veterans fliers — perhaps at designated hitter or in the outfield. “We want to give the guys that are here the opportunity to show what they can do,” Hahn said. “If […]
It’s Spring Training time and everyone’s feelin’ fine
White Sox pitchers and catchers — as well as a good number of early-arriving position players — participated in workouts at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., for the first time Tuesday. The start of Spring Training is normally noteworthy for no other reason than because it’s the start of something. We’re still more than six […]