Avisail Garcia started the season red hot, seeing his batting average climb to astronomical levels and the top of the league. Not only was the batting average, which is mostly meaningless, up in the stratosphere but he was also hitting for more power and extra bases than ever before. All of this came with two […]
Tag: Chicago White Sox
Mark Buehrle was awesome
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Feb. 24. I did a Q&A with C70 at the Bat the other day in which they quickly preview all of the teams in the majors with bloggers or writers who cover those teams. The last question posed was “Who is your favorite White Sox player of all-time […]
South Side Morning 5: Holy crap, that White Sox starting pitching
1. The White Sox have settled into the cellar of the AL Central, sitting comfortably with the Oakland Athletics as the bottom two teams in the American League. This is both unsurprising and inconsequential given the team’s goals both for this year and long term, but what is surprising is that the White Sox, according to […]
Complementary pieces important for rebuilding White Sox
The most important thing to judge during a rebuilding season is whether or not the players expected to be around the next time the team has eyes on contention are progressing the way you’d like. For this year’s White Sox, this has been a mixed bag of sorts thus far. The focus coming into the […]
Melky Cabrera is a treasure
The past decade has not been a great one to be a White Sox fan. This fall will mark the ninth straight season without a playoff appearance, and that 3-1 rout by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 ALDS was hardly a series to remember. Only the Seattle Mariners (2001 ALCS), Miami Marlins (2003 […]
The Catbird Speaks 6.19.17 – James Fegan returns to impart White Sox wisdom
Our old, dear friend, James Fegan, the Chicago White Sox beat writer for The Athletic, returns home for one glorious day to banter about baseball with his good pals Collin Whitchurch, Nick Schaefer, and Mark Primiano. Among the topics: -Miguel Gonzalez’s injury and James Shields’ return. -The trade value of the White Sox bullpen pieces, […]
The Matt Davidson Experience
Matt Davidson‘s career has been atypical after beginning in a very unremarkable way. He was a supplemental first round pick out of high school and fell into what our prospect team might call a readily identifiable bucket–good bat for third, middling bat for first base, questions about where his glove would fit. As is often […]
Let’s learn something about every late round White Sox draft pick
By now, you’ve likely read several articles about the White Sox top two draft picks, Jake Burger and Gavin Sheets. You’ve likely already read at least an article or two about the interesting day two selections the White Sox made in rounds 3-10. But alas, the MLB Draft drags on for another 30 rounds after […]
White Sox Day 2 Draft Recap: Lots of dingers, and other neat stuff
The White Sox first two selections of the MLB Draft on Monday gave us a pretty clear signal that the White Sox philosophy in this year’s draft was to load up on bats with impact power potential. In Jake Burger and Gavin Sheets, the White Sox snagged two players who finished in the Top 10 […]
How Burger and Sheets Fit
As I wrote yesterday, whether the White Sox made “good” or “bad” selections remains to be seen and may have nothing to do with whether they made the best decision possible at the time. All we know is the general profile of the two players they drafted with the 11th and 49th overall picks last […]