The good news about Nate Jones is that he pitched nearly three times as many innings as he did in 2017. The bad news is that he pitched only 30 innings. Jones has been in the White Sox organization since 2007. That makes him far and away the longest tenured player on the team. He […]
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White Sox Season In Review: The Forgotten Catchers
The White Sox used five catchers in 2018, which is probably more than they had hoped to need when they added Welington Castillo as the starter ahead of solid backup options Omar Narvaez and Kevan Smith Things didn’t go quite as planned, of course. Castillo got an 80-game suspension for taking a banned substance, and […]
White Sox Season in Review: Leury Garcia
What does Leury Garcia need to do to get more playing time? Well, stay healthy for one. Garcia broke out in 2017, at least relative to his production in previous seasons. He matched his playing time through his first four seasons combined and slashed a respectable .270/.316/.423 while hitting nine home runs after hitting a […]
White Sox Season In Review: Avisail Garcia
2018 contained all of the vast, infuriating multitudes which combine to form Avisail Garcia. After a breakout 2017 campaign where Garcia mostly stayed healthy and actualized all of his weird profile — you know, where he looks like a classic middle of the order hitter but instead is driven by contact, hitting to opposite field, and […]
White Sox Season in Review: Carson Fulmer
Walker Buehler threw seven strong innings for the Dodgers last night, striking out eight hitters while allowing four runs. His postseason has been rocky, but his rookie season was phenomenal: 8-5, 2.62 ERA, 151 K, 4.08 K:BB ratio, all over 137.1 IP. He’ll be in the conversation for National League Rookie of the Year, which is pretty much all […]
White Sox Season In Review: Jace Fry
When writing player comments for the Baseball Prospectus Annual, as Nick Schaefer and I did for the White Sox a year ago, the first step in the process is submitting a list of players. The list runs deep — the one Nick and I submitted a year ago included about 75 players — accounting for every […]
White Sox Season in Review: Adam Engel
It’s always important to have perspective. If you go through life making mountains out of molehills and forgetting to celebrate the small successes for what they are, you’ll be little more than a simpering heap of rage slowly marching towards your inescapable end. Perspective. It’s good for you. Adam Engel was drafted in the 19th […]
White Sox Season In Review: Nicky Delmonico
If we’re being fair, Nicky Delmonico probably belongs more in the category of “guys who got playing time despite not really having a future with the team” than one where he gets a whole post all to himself. But I’m not being fair. I’ll justify this by saying that, coming into the season, there were […]
White Sox Season in Review: Matt Davidson
2018 was pretty much set up to be a make or break season for Matt Davidson. The former Top 100 prospect return for Addison Reed was coming off a disappointing 2017 that managed to include 26 home runs with a .711 OPS and a K:BB ratio of 165:19. Not exactly what you want or need […]
White Sox Season In Review: Cordell, LaMarre, Skole, Thompson, Tilson
The thing about running a baseball website is that you get to make decisions like “let’s do a review of every player who played for the White Sox in 2018.” You think to yourself “that’ll be neat, a nice little recap so people can get a good idea of, say, the progress Tim Anderson made, […]