When looked at with even the most rose-colored lenses one could possibly ever hope to find, tendering Avisail Garcia a contract last winter didn’t make a whole lot of sense. The then-24 year old had finished his first complete season in majors and it was a bad one. Below replacement level bad (negative-0.3 bWAR). In […]
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White Sox Year in Review: Justin Morneau
When the Spring Training Adam LaRoche fiasco led to his unexpected retirement, a White Sox roster that was being held together by pins and needles lost, if my math is correct, two pins and four needles. LaRoche’s departure didn’t cripple the White Sox by any means — any team that was a LaRoche away from contention […]
White Sox Year in Review: Dioner Navarro
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. If you’re the White Sox front office you do the latter far more often than the former. When the White Sox shockingly decided to non-tender Tyler Flowers this winter, they made it clear what they valued in a catcher. Framing was not one of those things. In the view […]
Junior Guerra: One that got away
While we’re reviewing players from the 2016 White Sox, and more or less just killing time and wasting our lives, why not focus on something that didn’t quite happen on the South Side in 2016? Since the White Sox went 78-84, it would be hard for something short of a bus crash, a pestilence, everyone […]
White Sox Year in Review: Austin Jackson & Co.
Last offseason this website, in its past and current form, and seemingly everyone with a vested interest in the success of the White Sox, whether with a pen or keyboard, or just by speaking out loud were joined together in one common refrain: SIGN AN OUTFIELDER! This line of thought was logical. It was commonly known […]
Stranger Things: The 2016 White Sox Season
Rejoice, White Sox fans, for it is finally over. The 2016 season that started out with a bang and went out with a very long fizzle has now officially been laid to rest for a whole week. Of course, the entire idea of needing to rejoice because this season is “finally over” brings us back […]
The 2016 White Sox Were Who They Were Destined to Be
When the initial PECOTA Projected standings came out in Mid-February, the White Sox were projected to win 82 games and lose 80 games. The White Sox then made their biggest (!) free agent acquisition of the winter and brought in Austin Jackson after training camp had already begun in March. Jackson’s acquisition was not without […]
White Sox Year in Review: Brett Lawrie & Tyler Saladino
In Brett Lawrie the White Sox got exactly what they ordered off the menu. Brett Lawrie in 2016: 94 games, .248/.310/.413, 12 HRs, .253 TAv, 1.3 WARP Brett Lawrie career averages: 98 games, .261/.315/.419, 11.8 HRs, .266 TAv, 2.2 WARP Lawrie did just about everything one might have expected when the Sox acquired him from Oakland last […]
The Perils of a Rebuild
As a general matter, I become extremely suspicious when the White Sox are, inevitably, compared to the Cubs. More often than not, it is done to force a narrative rather than to provide any meaningful analysis as to what is occurring on the field. Of late, the comparisons have proliferated but, mercifully, they have at least […]
White Sox Year in Review: Failed Fifth Starters
Coming into 2016, the White Sox did not seem to be under any illusions about the back of their rotation. After Chris Sale, Jose Quintana, and Carlos Rodon, there was a staggering drop off to the fourth and fifth options. They started with John Danks and Mat Latos, one by inertia, and the other as […]