There are approximately one thousand things you could call Brett Lawrie, but uninteresting has never been one of them. From his early prospect days as a tatted-up youth playing Edward Fortyhands to a slightly more mature young adult with a vampire mouthguard and a love for playing DJ in the clubhouse, his blood comprising at least […]
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The Significance of Brett Lawrie’s Departure
As you have already heard, Brett Lawrie was released on Friday. If healthy, Lawrie represents a roughly league average bat that can be deployed with a plus glove at third or a below-average glove at second. Given that he was in his last year of arbitration and only cost $3.5 million, in a vacuum that’s an […]
White Sox Release Brett Lawrie
Brett Lawrie once leapt up on 66 inches worth of stacked boxes as a show of athletic prowess. Peak physical condition. Healthier than you or I will ever be. For many on the south side, this was an introduction to their new second baseman, excitable enough to have a shot at being a fan favorite. […]
Fun with White Sox player comparisons
PECOTA has been released for a few weeks now, but there’s always plenty to digest in the weeks leading up to Opening Day. One of my favorite aspects of PECOTA to look at around this time of year is the player comparisons, something that is far from gospel but at least somewhat useful in that: “it […]
White Sox Baseball Is Back
Due to the World Baseball Classic, Spring Training has been bumped up this year, and the White Sox have already played two games, losing to the Dodgers on Saturday and beating the Rockies on Sunday. As someone who inevitably fails to wholly follow this advice during his fantasy drafts, it is important to remember to […]
Today in wondering what’s holding up the trade market
There is no more comforting level of certainty like being in ideological lockstep with Scott Merkin. I agree with his bold prediction that Jose Quintana will be moved before Spring Training. There are too many interested parties, he checks too many boxes for teams looking to both control costs and add a frontline starter, with […]
Who is left to trade?
BP South Side has a house style that involves linking player names to their Baseball Prospectus player pages, and it’s necessary to make all of these links manually, so know that I am definitely not intentionally embellishing this list of still tradable players on the White Sox major league roster. Jose Quintana, Jose Abreu, Nate […]
Maybe the White Sox will do something this week
A new Collective Barganing Agreement in place, the Winter Meetings opening this weekend, and scores of Chris Sale rumors circulating have eliminated any conceivable obstacle to the beginning of the teardown. They might as well. Beyond strangely and cryptically half-committing to a rebuild already, the White Sox offseason has been listless and inactive, unless it’s interpreted […]
Transactions Analysis: Brett Lawrie and Avisail Garcia
The White Sox declared themselves dead before the end of July and basically the only thing they’ve done since is awkwardly let Robin Ventura kind of fire himself and float uninspiring rumors about trying to trade Chris Sale. Well, we finally had some news last night as Avisail Garcia and Brett Lawrie avoided arbitration and reached […]
BP South Side 2016-17 Offseason Plan – Part 1
What should the White Sox do to redeem this perpetual mess? Let’s discuss with somewhat reasonable parameters. Our first session will be firing through basic decisions: player options, non-tender decisions and outgoing free agents, hugs. The second session will be about trading Chris Sale and raiding nearby buildings for copper piping. Player Options Pick up […]