The most profound difficulty with assessing anyone’s mock offseason plan is determining where they chose to place themselves in the divide between what the White Sox would ideally do, and what they will likely do. Especially for a franchise that has struggled as much as the Sox have, provided as much frustration with regards to […]
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White Sox Year in Review: Nate Jones
A White Sox bullpen that started 2016 looking like one of the best in the American League ended up in shambles by the midway point of the season. Injuries to Zach Putnam and Jake Petricka hurt the team’s depth, David Robertson looked more and more like a reliever headed toward serious decline, and a lack […]
White Sox Year In Review: Melky Cabrera
Oftentimes, amid the flurry of chaos that is a major league season, consistency can be underrated. Stability, consistency, and reliability are often vanilla features in a world that thrives on either chaos, or dynamic but all too often fleeting success. For the White Sox in 2016, no one really paid enough attention to outfielder Melky […]
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 […]
South Side Morning 5: A select sample of people have spoken
1. They’re still doing that ESPN ultimate franchise rankings thing, and allegedly only for 14 years now, even though I remember reading their first version in a physical magazine that I purchased from a news stand, so I’m pretty sure it was in 1977. It’s basically one big customer satisfaction survey, so it should not […]
White Sox Year in Review: Matt Albers
Matt Albers was one of the worst relievers in the American League in 2016. Among pitchers who threw at least 49 innings of relief in the American League, of which there were 63, his ERA (6.57) was second worst to Detroit’s Mark Lowe. His fWAR was minus-0.9, tied with Kevin Jepsen, who was released in July […]
A second look at Chris Getz
At first blush, the White Sox naming Chris Getz to be the new Director of Player Development read as the type of thoroughly outside the box hire of an inexperienced former player of theirs, for which they have become notorious. While making such a hire did not preclude the Sox from success, it would not show […]
Mike Napoli is Good and That’s Bad
Sunday night, Mike Napoli went 2-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base, providing the bulk of Cleveland’s offense en route to a 3-0 lead in the ALCS. And while it is reductive, in many ways Napoli’s season (along with Dexter Fowler‘s) has served as one of the more condemnatory examples of how the White Sox failed […]
Sox shake up player development staff in extremely White Sox fashion
One thing we can be sure of: the White Sox do not care about optics. From Scott Merkin’s typically superb reporting, we learned this weekend that Director of Player Development Nick Capra was making the very unusual transition from five seasons as the White Sox Director of Player Development, to Third Base Coach for the […]
White Sox Year In Review: Tim Anderson
In a season during which every monumental moment that occurred seemed to bring a new level of catastrophe to the lives of White Sox fans, a reprieve was offered in the form of a 23-year-old shortstop from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tim Anderson made his highly anticipated major league debut on June 10, sandwiched between a flurry of […]