A surprisingly useful side benefit of going into tremendous debt to become a dogtor has been applying my medical knowledge to baseball. I can describe injuries and recovery time tables with confidence after some remodeling from quadruped to human. But the one I get the most excited for is drugs. Drugs are drugs are drugs, […]
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Welington Castillo’s suspension puts White Sox in tough spot
Welington Castillo’s 80-game suspension for violating MLB’s joint drug agreement, which was first reported by Dominican reporter Americo Celado and confirmed by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, puts the White Sox in a position of both dealing with and reacting to a player being hit with such a punishment, as well as stuck with a roster hole […]
South Side Morning 5: James Shields in 2018?
It helps to be playing the struggling Rangers and Orioles, but with a come-from-behind 3-2 victory on Tuesday the White Sox moved to 4-2 over their last six games. They’re only 8.5 games out for the division lead! 1. James Shields again finished the seventh inning, allowing only two runs. He has gone at least five innings […]
The White Sox Need to Spend This Winter
This is not a new thought nor does it qualify as particularly deep analysis but not every idea has to be new or cutting edge. Sometimes things just have to be. Things are starting to look up for the 2018 Chicago White Sox as they’ve won 4 of their last 6 for the first time […]
Hitting development still the key to the White Sox future
We’ve written about it several times in the past, but one of the more interesting changes in player acquisitions we’ve seen in recent years, coincidentally or not, is the White Sox targeting position players who are at or close to major league-ready. It made sense, particularly when they were still trying to contend, as the White […]
South Side Morning 5: White Sox Rotation Options, Or Lack Thereof
1. The White Sox have the worst rotation in baseball. You can pick nits here and there between them, the Royals, Marlins, and Orioles, but you can make a PRETTY strong argument that the White Sox have the worst. Carson Fulmer’s demotion Friday — following yet another disastrous start — made sense in that even in […]
Checking in on Old Friends
We all knew the rebuild would be painful. That’s kind of the main aspect of a rebuild: growth through suffering. But this year was supposed to be a step forward and instead it’s the middle of May and the White Sox have the worst record in all of baseball by multiple games. Oh bad things […]
Tim Anderson’s Development
As you’ve read in this space repeatedly, for all of the excitement around the new and newer prospects in the system, the White Sox Rebuild will turn largely on how some players already in house progress, with Tim Anderson representing just such a crucial class of player. It seems fair to describe his rookie season […]
South Side 5: A Day Off
It may have been a week since our last update, but again we have only one White Sox win to report. It was a good win, with Lucas Giolito battling through supreme wildness to hold a potent Cubs lineup to three runs en route to a quality start. It still leaves the White Sox with […]
South Side Monday 5: Let’s Ignore The Present
The White Sox have fallen to 9-23, better only than the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds. With Avisail Garcia and Yoan Moncada joining Carlos Rodon on the disabled list, a lineup with plenty of weaknesses has gotten even weaker, despite the continued improvements of Matt Davidson and Tim Anderson. So, even with the starting rotation […]