Sunday night, Mike Napoli went 2-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base, providing the bulk of Cleveland’s offense en route to a 3-0 lead in the ALCS. And while it is reductive, in many ways Napoli’s season (along with Dexter Fowler‘s) has served as one of the more condemnatory examples of how the White Sox failed […]
Tag: Avisail Garcia
White Sox Year in Review: Avisail Garcia
When looked at with even the most rose-colored lenses one could possibly ever hope to find, tendering Avisail Garcia a contract last winter didn’t make a whole lot of sense. The then-24 year old had finished his first complete season in majors and it was a bad one. Below replacement level bad (negative-0.3 bWAR). In […]
Avisail Garcia has had a decent second half–what does this mean?
Who is less trustworthy to make a fair and honest and realistic assessment of Avisail Garcia‘s progress at this point? The Chicago White Sox or…us? Us being the viewing public that has seen Garcia stumble and struggle and hint at huge potential, but never quite reach it for parts of four seasons, and watched him […]
Indians 10, White Sox 4: Making the season worth ending
Thanks to some early offensive fireworks, it wasn’t immediately obvious to newcomers which team was fighting for the best record in the American League Friday night in Cleveland, and which was straining for a reason to keep going, but these things have a certain, brutal way of self-correcting. Despite staking themselves to a pair of […]
Hopes and prayers
Avisail Garcia looked really, really good Monday. He just wouldn’t be the frustrating figure that he is if he didn’t look like someone capable of taking over a game every now and then, and this was his night. He collected four hits, including his 11th home run of the season, which is a paltry total, […]
Let’s appreciate Melky Cabrera
BP South Side seems to have somehow developed some reputation for negativity. A shame! And baffling, given the sunny subject matter. To try to build back our reputation, let’s focus on a good story (all my stories are good, making this easy) about something going right this season. A White Sox problem that has been […]
The Evergreen White Sox Problem
Upon drafting the headline, I hesitated, because it could describe a number of things with this organization. But in this instance, I am speaking specifically about the White Sox’ perpetual habit of gushing blood at several spots on the lineup and being clueless as to how to fix it. It’s been going on so long that […]
White Sox 7, Tigers 4: Eighth-inning comeback gives Sox rare AL Central series win
After the White Sox improbably rallied for a four-run eighth to take the rubber match of what was a crucial three-game set for Detroit, Good Twitter User Neal Hamer posed the following interrogatory @JRFegan is this the first series the Sox have won against KC, Detroit or Cleveland this year? — Neal Hamer (@nealhamer) September […]
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 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 […]