No. Look nobody has ever accused me of burying a lede, but while the short and simple answer to the question is “no”, there are individual elements of these games that matter both from a roster-building and developmental standpoint. The White Sox begin their Cactus League schedule today against the Dodgers. Dylan Covey will start, and Tyler […]
Tag: Carlos Rodon
Fun With White Sox PECOTA Player Comparisons
PECOTA Day brings me a lot of joy for a lot of reasons, but one of the most fun aspects of its release, at least to me, is looking at the player comparisons. Like last year, I’ve picked out some of my favorite White Sox player comparisons — fun, unusual, exciting — as we continue […]
PECOTA and the 2018 White Sox
Wednesday was PECOTA Day at the Baseball Prospectus, the day when our projection system spits out how it thinks the new season will unfold. You can view the full projections over at Baseball Prospectus, and the work that goes into them always make it worth your while, but let’s dive into some of the more noteworthy projections […]
White Sox Bring Back Miguel Gonzalez On One-Year Deal
While the eerily passive offseason continues, the White Sox remain active, albeit in a modest fashion appropriate for their situation. On Wednesday, Miguel Gonzalez agreed to return to the South Side on a one-year, $4.75 million contract. After pouncing on Gonzalez once Baltimore put him on waivers in 2016, he and Don Cooper gelled marvelously and […]
Plethora of pitching prospects puts White Sox in good position
“Prospects will break your heart” is a phrase you’ve likely read on a good number of occasions on this site and others. “Pitching prospects will break your heart” is even more apt, as any scout or evaluator can likely rattle off a good dozen or so examples of pitching prospects who failed to live up […]
White Sox Season in Review: Carlos Rodon
Everybody has one of those players. You don’t know how, or why, they ended up being so important to you. But they did, and that’s all that matters. Other players on the team are exciting, and their success is certainly worth celebrating as much as their failures are worth lamenting. But nothing quite compares to […]
Rodon’s precarious season will linger into 2018 after shoulder surgery
With 2017 being essentially a year free of the worries of competition for the Chicago White Sox, one of the main selling points for fan enjoyment was watching the young talent that was left behind develop and hopefully take that next step. The results were a bit of a mixed bag. Avisail Garcia finally broke […]
The White Sox were never truly tanking
The end of the season is right around the corner, and for a select few teams that means moving on to play more games in October. For another select group of teams, it marks a time to look forward on the calendar to June, when the first year player draft will occur. The White Sox […]
What matters now and what matters in the future
I was heading to work Wednesday afternoon when a buddy sent me a message to rib me over the fact that the White Sox bullpen had just blown a 3-1 lead in the eighth inning of what wound up a 5-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals. This gentle fan-to-fan banter is commonplace in my […]
Rodon Scratched, White Sox Annihilated
A win Thursday night never seemed very likely. With Corey Kluber on the mound and Cleveland in pursuit of their 15th straight win—a streak that features historic bludgeoning of opponents along the way–the White Sox were facing an uphill battle to say the least. Then things got even worse when Carlos Rodon was a late scratch […]