If you could have envisioned what Hector Santiago’s realistic median outcome performance would be when he signed a minor-league free agent deal with the White Sox in February, it would have been more or less exactly what we got. Santiago spent the duration of 2018 with the major league team after making the final cuts […]
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White Sox Season In Review: Yolmer Sanchez
Yolmer Sanchez was the emotional center of the 2018 White Sox. He was fun and jovial and everything that’s easy to root for. His celebrations — on the rare occasion the White Sox had something worth celebrating — became instant viral sensations across baseball Twitter, and the stories from beat writers who interacted with him […]
White Sox Season In Review: Jose Rondon
Matt Davidson, Daniel Palka, Nicky Delmonico, Yolmer Sanchez, Omar Narvaez, Adam Engel. Those are just some of the guys who have taken advantage of the circumstances that surround the White Sox roster the last few years. If the White Sox were in a different situation — say, trying to contend — many of those players […]
White Sox Season In Review: Carlos Rodon
The question about Carlos Rodon for a few years now has been “When will he finally break out?” Four years into his professional career, though, it might be fair to now revise that down to “Will he ever break out?” For the last two years, it has seemed like the only thing holding Rodon back […]
White Sox Season in Review: Daniel Palka
As I alluded to in Wednesday’s article about Omar Narvaez, 2018 was a season short on things to celebrate for the White Sox and their fans. The team lost 100 games. Shortly before that, they lost their top pitching prospect for a year and a half. The remaining top prospects mostly underperformed or got hurt. Things […]
White Sox Season in Review: Omar Narvaez
While the vast majority of the 2018 Chicago White Sox season was filled with enough injuries, underproduction, and all-around soul-sapping depression strong enough to drag even the rosiest of rebuild optimists down into the muck and the mire, there were actually a few fun and interesting bright spots. And I actually get to write about […]
White Sox Season In Review: Yoan Moncada
When it comes to evaluating Yoan Moncada, context matters. It’s easy to be disappointed with the second baseman after his first full season in the majors. The former No. 1 prospect in baseball and prize of the trade that sent new World Series champion Chris Sale to the Boston Red Sox has had his share […]
White Sox Season In Review: Juan Minaya
If one wanted to, one could use Juan Minaya as a microcosm of the White Sox Rebuild and 2018 as a whole. Acquired off waivers from Houston in late June 2016, Minaya arrived right around the death of the last White Sox contention cycle. Like many players on the 2018 roster, he was not one of […]
White Sox Season In Review: Reynaldo Lopez
There are two different lenses through which you can look at Reynaldo Lopez’s 2018 season. The first one is nice. Lopez made it through his first full season as a starting pitcher and did mostly fine. He threw 188 innings and posted a 3.91 ERA. It’s the type of season where you can look back […]
White Sox Season in Review: Michael Kopech
Sigh. This was supposed to be one of the happy write ups. One of the coveted Year in Reviews that you have to be the first person who signs into the Google Doc to claim. One of (if not the) top pitching prospects in all of baseball with electric stuff, charisma, and he’s ours? The […]