The first acquisition of last year’s White Sox offseason was Steve Lombardozzi. The second was selecting Jacob Turner off waivers. Since moving to the bullpen, Turner does not look great, but has resembled a major leaguer in a way he certainly did not in his disastrous spot starts, allowing two earned runs, striking out seven […]
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The Good Ship Avisail
“Anyway you slice it, the last 38 games of the season may determine [Avisail] Garcia’s fate in the organization. … As the White Sox remain cautiously optimistic about his future, Garcia can stay under team control through 2020. Look for him to play a lot of right field until season’s end.” -Bruce Levine [Buys […]
White Sox 4, Mariners 1: Rodon’s hot stretch continues
The White Sox continued their onslaught against the Mariners Sunday, winning 4-1 to bring the season series to 5-3. With the Mariners on the periphery of Wild Card contention along with surging teams such as Detroit, Houston and Kansas City, the White Sox fought hard to ensure that the only AL team with a longer […]
White Sox 9, Mariners 3: Four-homer night backs a typically brilliant Quintana
What will be more difficult? Explaining to future generations how impossibly nasty Chris Sale was in his heyday when decades of pitching development will make his pitch mix and delivery seem ordinary, or explaining the sublime nature of Jose Quintana‘s mastery over all that he can control. 1. A leadoff double from Leonys Martin put Quintana […]
Mariners 3, White Sox 1: Brilliant finish from Sale brightens otherwise awful game
It’s the time of year to cling to positives, to look for something to track for progress, or given the absence of Jose Abreu‘s power bat and Chris Sale‘s most overwhelming strikeout stuff, and Jose Quintana striving for a career year, just some feats of strength from the core is enough to be heartwarming. In that vein, it’s […]
Jose Abreu’s Hot Streak–Good News and Bad News
The offense has been terrible this season and it’s tiresome. It’s tiresome both because this is not a new experience, but also because it was completely foreseeable and preventable. Almost every hitter on this roster has delivered a season within the reasonable bands of expectation.* Until a month or ago, or so, the biggest exception was […]
Tim Anderson Showing Promise of a Solid Future in Rookie Season
It’s hard to believe that just three months ago, White Sox rookie shortstop Tim Anderson’s name was just a blip on the radar of every White Sox fan’s mind. A piece of the future that was near, but they weren’t sure how near. But now it’s hard to remember a time before Anderson. Tyler Saladino […]
A guaranteed missed opportunity
As you’ve likely seen by now, the White Sox announced a long-term deal to rename their stadium to Guaranteed Rate Field, with the 13-year agreement going into effect November 1. From a strictly dollars and cents perspective, the news is somewhere between neutral and good; from a more important perspective, it’s an example of this […]
Phillies 5, White Sox 3: A non-humiliating Shields loss
Recently, James Shields had been sliding back to his old habits of getting completely annihilated while pitching in a White Sox uniform. Coming into Wednesday night, Shields had allowed six earned runs in each of his August starts, given up nine home runs in 14 innings of work, only lasted 14 innings in four starts, been crushed […]
Rodon’s war against the other side
The Phillies only having one good left-handed hitter on their entire roster is mostly disastrous, but it puts them in a position to do something pretty sharp. Against Carlos Rodon, who came into Tuesday night with right-handers hitting .305/.365/.484 off of him–even with his hot August beginning to factor in–the Phillies trotted out an all-righty […]