1. The Twins were supposed to be carried by their offense. With a full year of Miguel Sano and his monstrous power, solid-average to plus veterans Brian Dozier, Trevor Plouffe and even old friend Eduardo Escobar, and the growth a slew of promising youngsters including Byron Buxton and Max Kepler, the Twins were supposed to hit enough to at least […]
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South Side Morning/Afternoon 5: White Sox starting pitching is not bad
1. Carlos Rodon not only has 10-straight quality starts after six shutout innings Wednesday night, he has 10-straight starts with two runs or less allowed. He has a 1.60 ERA over this stretch. Somewhere along the line he switched from becoming a raw talent to the White Sox starter providing the steadiest run prevention and […]
The Chris Sale Cy Young campaign hasn’t started yet
I predicted Chris Sale to win the 2016 AL Cy Young. We predicted Chris Sale to win the 2016 AL Cy Young. The White Sox playoff hopes are somewhat leveraged on him performing to that level. This wasn’t just based on remembering his murderous eight-start stretch from last June, where he posted a 97/9 strikeout-to-walk […]
Indians 7, White Sox 1: Was this a good home opener? Snow way
John Danks‘ erraticism coupled with an offense as cold as the temperature in Chicago made for an unhappy home opener Friday as the White Sox fell 7-1 to the Indians. 1. Danks kept the ball around the plate for most of his five innings of work, finishing with six strikeouts and just one walk. But unfortunately, […]
Game Preview: Oakland Two – The Oaklanding
Evidently Sonny Gray is still not healthy enough to pitch, which means that former White Sox prospect Chris Bassitt will take the mound for the A’s against Jose Quintana. Bassitt’s a fun player, given that he’s an underdog with a funky delivery paired with decent velocity. That said, his ceiling is that of a fourth […]
South Side Morning 5: Opening Day
1. Chris Sale faces Sonny Gray in the best pitching matchup of Opening Day. I am aware of the Corey Kluber-David Price game, I looked them all up before I did this and decided to double down on this claim for my baseball connoisseur cred. The game played at 10:00pm EDT in a dimly-lit Dungeon […]
Alex Avila Is Making Me Nervous
The season hasn’t started yet, and we have already spilled a decent amount of ink on the White Sox‘ catching situation. Well, injury-prone backstop Alex Avila is already injured, and the subsequent reassuring quotes actually have me way more freaked out than if they had said nothing.
Did the White Sox solve their OBP issue?
With the litany of issues that plagued the White Sox offense in 2015, it would be unfair to pinpoint one specific problem and act as if it were the sole cause of their shortcomings as a team. But the issue we’re going to focus on today is their inability to get on base at a respectable clip […]
Rick Hahn’s offseason review: The catching platoon
To start things off at BP South Side, we are reviewing the offseason moves of White Sox GM Rick Hahn in a staff-wide series. Here, Ethan Spalding reviews the catching platoon of Alex Avila and Dioner Navarro.