Last weekend’s SoxFest event provided us with our first look at the 2017 White Sox as they’ll likely be constructed. It also gave Rick Hahn his first opportunity to speak about the challenges the team faces as it undergoes its most drastic rebuild in two decades. Hahn’s statements throughout the weekend, both to reporters and […]
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White Sox Add Peter Bourjos On Minor League Deal
While it wasn’t a bombshell like a Jose Quintana trade that some may have expected at Sox Fest, the White Sox did sign a free agent on Thursday, and as the headline indicates, it was Peter Bourjos on a minor league deal. There are very few situations where a minor league deal can be a bad one–it […]
Stuck with the middle class
It’s been a full week of checking in on cool national research and framing it around the White Sox, so let’s keep it going. Earlier this week, Travis Sawchik of FanGraphs wrote about the shrinking “middle class” of the league, and painted a picture of a player crop that was becoming increasingly divided between elite […]
White Sox pitchers and tunneling
In our continuing series of digesting Jeff Long, Jonathan Judge and Harry Pavlidis’ landmark research into new frontiers of pitching analysis and lazily parroting it from a White Sox perspective, comes now a look into tunneling. To their credit, tunneling might be an even more difficult concept to quickly synopsize than the information involved in […]
New command and control pitching metrics and the White Sox
The Baseball Prospectus stats team has unleashed a new measurement on the baseball world and now we are straggling behind, desperate to catch up. Using a similar process to how they isolated catcher impact on extra strikes being called, they have isolated pitcher impact on the same result. In addition, Harry Pavlidis, Jeff Long and […]
Introducing the 2017 Chicago White Sox Spring Training Non-Roster Invites
It hardly seems possible that pitchers and catchers are already reporting in less than a month, but somehow that’s where we’re currently sitting. The White Sox have issued 19 non-roster invitations for Spring Training thus far, with eight of those invites being free agents. Your friends and coworkers will come to you over the next […]
Minnie Minoso’s Hall of Fame Case
On Thursday, Collin evaluated the landscape of future White Sox Hall of Fame candidates, before concluding that the next White Sox Hall of Famer is not active or recently retired, but Minnie Minoso. And, although Minoso is often remembered for his appearances at 50 and 54-years-old in 1976 and 1980 respectively, his career was relatively short […]
What is Miguel Gonzalez going forward?
It’s been easy to spend the last five years of watching the White Sox obsessed with Chris Sale. The development of a generational, Hall of Fame-caliber player has felt more worth chronicling than an entire team itself, and from this framing, it’s easy to slip into the trap of viewing the fate of the Sox […]
When is the next time a Hall of Fame plaque will feature a White Sox cap?
When Frank Thomas was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014 it was the culmination of the career of one of the greatest players in White Sox history. It was also likely the last time for the foreseeable future we’ll see a player enter Cooperstown with a White Sox cap adorned on his […]
South Side Morning 5: Is anything more important than that alarm clock
1. The venerable Bruce Levine reported this week that talks for Jose Quintana are intensifying, that interested parties are sweetening their offers, and that more teams are involved than the publicly discussed bids by the Yankees, Astros and Pirates. Since Quintana is the best player on the trade market, and the return for him would […]