A month of baseball has been played. The White Sox are off to a shockingly good start for a team that went into the season labeled as a rebuilding team. Most batters have had about 100 plate appearances. Fans and analysts alike are itching to draw conclusions from the month of baseball we’ve seen so […]
Tag: Avisail Garcia
Three Reasons the White Sox are Winning
The White Sox are off to a great start for the month of April. Before Sunday’s loss to Detroit, they won six games in a row, are now 13-10, and are just 1/2 game behind Cleveland in the AL Central. Of course, no fan of the White Sox can forget what they did a year ago in […]
South Side Morning 5: Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Garcias of War
In 2016, the last gasp of the Contending White Sox managed only five wins out of 19 games against the Kansas City Royals. The Rebuilding 2017 White Sox now have 60 percent of that win total in only three chances, outscoring their erstwhile nemeses 27-8 en route to a sweep, and moving to 11-9 on the year. […]
South Side Morning 5: So This Is What A Rebuild Looks Like
1. The White Sox dropped 2 of 3 from the Indians over the weekend, going from the fourth inning of Wednesday’s loss to the Yankees to the first inning of Sunday’s win without scoring a run in the process. The results themselves are difficult to get worked up about given the team’s current standing as […]
Let’s Regress Avisail Garcia’s Small Sample
Through Wednesday’s game in New York, Avisail Garcia ranks 24th on the Baseball Prospectus hitter WARP leaderboard with 0.69, a hair behind Francisco Lindor and a hair ahead of Corey Seager and Kris Bryant; it’s a pretty nice group of guys to be in the middle of. It’s impossible to ignore that the others are MVP caliber, […]
South Side Morning 5: How Did Miguel Gonzalez Do That?
1. Miguel Gonzalez’s efficiency in Tuesday’s 4-1 win over the Yankees — 8.1 innings, 4 hits, 1 walk, 4 strikeouts on just 88 pitches — showed what the White Sox can get when he’s at his best. Gonzalez is never going to blow away hitters or get them to chase his off-speed stuff with regularity, but his […]
South Side Morning 5: Avisail Garcia and James Shields are Good?
The White Sox visited Target Field over the weekend for a three game series with the Minnesota Twins. With Dylan Covey, Jose Quintana, and James Shields taking the mound the Sox were able to take 2 of 3 games from the Twins. They now sit a game above .500 at 6-5. 1. Jacob May saw his […]
South Side Morning 5: Avisail Garcia Keeps Going
The White Sox offense exploded Thursday night to a 10-4 win over the Indians. That win allowed them to seal the series victory over a Cleveland team that looks like it should win the AL Central with ease. It also pushed the White Sox to a .500 record of 4-4 in this early juncture of the […]
South Side Morning 5: Dutch Courage
With a 2-1 victory in Cleveland last night, the White Sox continue their respectable start, moving to 3-4. Even with Chris Sale gone and Carlos Rodon on the DL, to date pitching is the strength of the team. Theoretically a staff ERA of 2.54 would get you more than three wins in seven games, but […]
South Side Morning 5: First Week (Over) Reactions
With five games in the books, the 2017 season is going mostly as you would have expected one week ago — Avisail Garcia is hitting .474, Geovany Soto is tied for the league lead in home runs, and Todd Frazier is the worst hitter in baseball. Sardonicism aside, there is plenty to analyze after a […]