Perhaps, with an off day to shake off the sting of Sunday’s last-second loss, the reader was able to drum up more optimism than the author for the White Sox matchup against Corey Kluber–a true AL Cy Young candidate–and the division-leading Indians, who had taken their last six contests against the South siders. From this […]
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Rushing Burdi to the majors is fine
Last month, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Cassidy of Future Sox in Chicago. Among many things, we discussed the seemingly imminent arrival to the majors of 2016 first-round draft pick Zack Burdi. Already tagged as a likely fast-riser provided he stayed in a relief role, Burdi was in the typically aggressive Sox system, […]
The White Sox and the Disposition Effect
In Wednesday’s game against the Royals, Robin Ventura continued to fill out his dismal managerial resume with a number of questionable (read: bad) moves including but not limited to: intentionally walking Alcides Escobar, owner of a .587 OPS and .228(!) TAV, with two outs, intentionally walking Escobar again later in the game also with two […]
White Sox takeaways from Saberseminar
The 2016 iteration of Saberseminar, a conference devoted to baseball scouting, statistics, and sports science, took place in Boston this past weekend. In roughly 12 hours of baseball presentations across two days, it was inevitable that topics relevant to every team would pop up; here are the portions of my notebook that pertain to the White Sox. In […]
Marlins 5, White Sox 4: Sale underwhelms as Sox comeback comes inches short
Death, taxes, government subsidies for sports stadiums, and the White Sox losing reviews on the plate-blocking rule. 1. Pinch-runner Carlos Sanchez was beaten by a strong throw home from left fielder Christian Yelich, as he tried to score the tying run in the top of the ninth after Tyler Saladino singled with two outs. The […]
White Sox 4, Marlins 2: Jose Abreu’s son probably thinks the Sox are great
For the first time in his young life, Dariel Abreu got to see his father play major league baseball in person, taking in the game from some nice seats behind home plate. The adorable little five-year-old Abreu has his father’s same high forehead, his same gummy smile, and showed a precocious ability to blend into […]
Robin Ventura and the Danger of Treating Symptoms
Do you know what the most common disease is in American household dogs and cats? It’s periodontal disease. House pets, in general, have bad oral hygiene and fairly gross teeth and gums. When left unchecked and untreated this can result in bleeding gums, cracked teeth, and systemic illness. The cure for this is obvious: clean […]
Why Jose Quintana is good
It certainly was before the point I became a believer in Jose Quintana‘s ability to thrive in the long-term, but one of the first times I really noticed what he was doing, was on June 12, 2012. Single games can take on greater thematic weight in retrospect, when years of work reveal it to the […]
Royals 2, White Sox 1: Rookies perform well after Gonzalez injury, but still no offense
Conceding that the Sox cannot hit, they lost again, Danny Duffy owns them (and the rest of the league too, now), Miguel Gonzalez got hurt, and most of the results for the rest of the season are meaningless: hey hey, some good things happened Friday night! 1. Gonzalez looked really crisp for that inning he […]
What’s really happening in the James Shields dilemma?
James Shields has been one of the many unfortunate blunders that the 2016 White Sox have endured. From giving up three home runs in his first two innings of work with his new team, to just this past weekend when Shields surrendered a season-high four home runs to the power-hitting Baltimore Orioles — it’s been a […]