Monday, when previously rumored news that major league baseball was banning hazing practices that compelled rookies to dress up as women became official–among other restrictions–there was unsurprisingly a scattered collection of irritation from players who had been through the ritual in their career. Kevin Youkilis expressed outrage and said he was proud of the Hooters costume […]
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Who is left to trade?
BP South Side has a house style that involves linking player names to their Baseball Prospectus player pages, and it’s necessary to make all of these links manually, so know that I am definitely not intentionally embellishing this list of still tradable players on the White Sox major league roster. Jose Quintana, Jose Abreu, Nate […]
First week of White Sox rebuilding showcases Hahn at his best
At the risk of bringing up old stuff, Rick Hahn has been the king of Winter Meetings before. Just these past two years have seen him holding press conference to graciously discuss some degree of a coup he had just pulled off. Last Winter he made a deal for Brett Lawrie in exchange for a pair […]
White Sox rebuild off to the inspiring start it needed
A funny thing happened on the way to me putting together a sentimental retrospective about getting to watch the beginning of Chris Sale‘s career: the White Sox knocked away my focus with their massive Adam Eaton trade. The second shocking blockbuster vaulted the Sox’ still growing farm system into the top-10 in baseball, before they have […]
Finding enjoyment in the rebuild
With Chris Sale now off to the Red Sox, Adam Eaton off to the Nationals and rumors of the (very sensible) impending departures of Jose Quintana, Todd Frazier, Jose Abreu and anyone not under the age of 25, the White Sox are officially entering a full-on rebuild for the first time in forever. Their farm […]
White Sox send Adam Eaton to D.C.
White Sox Teardown: Part 2 featured another very good and popular player shipped away for a solid haul of prospects. The White Sox sent Adam Eaton to the Washington Nationals on Wednesday for a trio of prospects, according to multiple media reports. The prospects, Lucas Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, and Dane Dunning, are all right-handed pitchers […]
Sale is gone – BPSS Roundtable
On Tuesday, the White Sox executed the first and most daring step of long-rumored rebuild: they traded Chris Sale to Boston in return for top-prospect Yoan Moncada, extremely live arm Michael Kopech, a far from irrelevant secondary prospect Luis Basabe and right-handed relief prospect Victor Diaz. While we can look at this package, see a […]
White Sox Have No One to Blame But Themselves
The White Sox made Chris Sale the 13th overall pick in MLB Draft on June 7, 2010. He debuted less than two months later, over the next six years he had developed into one of the best pitchers on the planet. He’ll enter the 2017 season on the heels of his fourth straight Top 5 […]
Chris Sale Traded to Boston
There is a lot to unpack here, and we will analyze this trade to death in the coming hours and days, but Chris Sale has been traded to the Red Sox for Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech, Luis Alexander Basabe, and Victor Diaz. Depending on whom you ask, Moncada is somewhere between the No. 1 prospect […]
It sure seems like Chris Sale is about to be traded
The Winter Meetings are in full swing over in National Harbor, Md., and a lot of very smart and well-sourced reporters turned the Hot Stove temperature up to max Monday night with reports that the White Sox are moving closer to dealing Chris Sale. Sources: Legitimate chance of Sale trade to #Nationals. Robles, Giolito would […]