What should the White Sox do to redeem this perpetual mess? Let’s discuss with somewhat reasonable parameters. Our first session will be firing through basic decisions: player options, non-tender decisions and outgoing free agents, hugs. The second session will be about trading Chris Sale and raiding nearby buildings for copper piping. Player Options Pick up […]
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South Side Morning 5: A select sample of people have spoken
1. They’re still doing that ESPN ultimate franchise rankings thing, and allegedly only for 14 years now, even though I remember reading their first version in a physical magazine that I purchased from a news stand, so I’m pretty sure it was in 1977. It’s basically one big customer satisfaction survey, so it should not […]
White Sox Year in Review: Jimmy Rollins
The White Sox entered the 2016 season with plans of contending. The White Sox entered the 2016 season with Jimmy Rollins as their starting shortstop. To most people, those two sentences would run at least somewhat contradictory to each other. Rick Hahn is not most people. The team entered last offseason faced with the difficult […]
White Sox Year in Review: Matt Albers
Matt Albers was one of the worst relievers in the American League in 2016. Among pitchers who threw at least 49 innings of relief in the American League, of which there were 63, his ERA (6.57) was second worst to Detroit’s Mark Lowe. His fWAR was minus-0.9, tied with Kevin Jepsen, who was released in July […]
A second look at Chris Getz
At first blush, the White Sox naming Chris Getz to be the new Director of Player Development read as the type of thoroughly outside the box hire of an inexperienced former player of theirs, for which they have become notorious. While making such a hire did not preclude the Sox from success, it would not show […]
Mike Napoli is Good and That’s Bad
Sunday night, Mike Napoli went 2-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base, providing the bulk of Cleveland’s offense en route to a 3-0 lead in the ALCS. And while it is reductive, in many ways Napoli’s season (along with Dexter Fowler‘s) has served as one of the more condemnatory examples of how the White Sox failed […]
White Sox Year In Review: Charlie Tilson and Zach Duke
The White Sox won 78 games this year and 76 last year. On July 31 of this year, they were 10.5 games out of the division and below .500. I suppose that was a modest improvement on being 11.5 games out of the division at the same time the previous year. Despite being so situated, […]
White Sox Year In Review: Tim Anderson
In a season during which every monumental moment that occurred seemed to bring a new level of catastrophe to the lives of White Sox fans, a reprieve was offered in the form of a 23-year-old shortstop from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tim Anderson made his highly anticipated major league debut on June 10, sandwiched between a flurry of […]
What if Sale was put on Kershaw’s stage?
A spare thought after watching the sport’s greatest pitcher dig impossibly deep for new reserves of his greatness… Given the expectations laid forth when he transitioned to starting, Chris Sale‘s health has been a revelation. His mechanics have been revealed to be deceptively smooth despite his atypical build, and he’s compiled 1,015 innings with a 3.04 […]
Conor Gillaspie used to do this stuff over here
There was nothing but pure amusement to the first episode of Conor Gillaspie: Playoff Hero. Here was this unfailingly reserved and quiet soul, suddenly forced into the absurdity of a live SportsCenter interview, because of the seemingly impossible alignment of his decent ability for hitting right-handers, with his happening upon an organization decent enough to place […]