Looking for a rare strong second half push, the White Sox are throwing all of their internal options into the fire. Justin Morneau was activated from the disabled list and Carson Fulmer was called up from Double-A, all in one aggressive swoop. Jason Coats was also optioned, while Avisail Garcia remains. More on that later. […]
Tag: Chicago White Sox
Where Are They Now?
White Sox fans have long suffered the plight of watching this organization start players that the baseball world at large knows are best suited for other roles. You can only stretch one player so far, and you certainly can’t ask more of him than which he’s capable. Yet many of these “unsuccessful” White Sox players […]
When Reality Won’t Cooperate With Your Plans
The 2016 White Sox have an incomplete roster. They left winter with an incomplete roster, with Austin Jackson as their big free agent acquisition. With more than half the season in the books, almost all of the problems they have now were foreseeable during the offseason. Unfortunately, they punted solving them, and as is often the case […]
Will Chris Sale Finally Snap the White Sox’s Major Award Drought?
Before Jose Abreu beat out Matt Shoemaker and Dellin Betances for the 2014 American League Rookie of the Year Award, no White Sox player had won an award worth noting since Frank Thomas took home MVP in 1994. Twenty years of nothing. Every team in the AL other than Tampa, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Cleveland has […]
All-Star Game provides Quintana with long overdue recognition
Jose Quintana is finally going to an All-Star Game. Along with most of you reading this, I think he should’ve been chosen as one of the initial crop of five starters, but a nice thing about the ballooning of All-Star rosters is that it has decreased the likelihood that guys who really deserve to make […]
Who are these guys?
For the second-straight year, the White Sox look like the victim of the second Wild Card spot. Only one more team in the American League has been making the playoffs every year since 2012, but the threshold for where teams can appear within striking distance of the last slot has been lowered an order of […]
Braves 2, White Sox 0: Current Sox drop finale, series to former Sox.
The White Sox donned their Sunday best, but dropped the series finale to the visiting Braves. With the loss, the Sox broke their streak of five-straight series wins and closed the door on a turbulent first half with a 45-43 record. 1. The scoring was done quick and early Sunday afternoon. Solo home runs from Jeff Francoeur […]
Jay Bruce: Something Better Than Avisail Garcia
Let’s play a little game. Let’s say you’re the GM of a team that, due to unfortunate injury circumstances, is looking to start a new outfielder to take up a vacated position. You would like to this player’s profile to be typical for a corner, meaning that he can hit for a decent amount of […]
White Sox 5, Braves 4: Frazier stars in sloppy all-Colombian showdown
The first showdown of Colombian-born starting pitchers in major league baseball history pitted Julio Teheran against Jose Quintana; two young, All-Star caliber hurlers who have enjoyed a glorious climb to the top of their respective rotations and leagues. So naturally they were both pretty bad on Saturday against mediocre and awful offenses, respectively. 1. Todd Frazier […]
Braves 11, White Sox 8: Wut
It’s not like the Sox are world-beaters, or even particularly reliable, or even possess any immunity at all to the occasional–or frequent!–mind-bending letdown. And you can’t just look at starting pitching matchups and call them a win or loss, because there’s so much more going on in game beyond the starting pitchers. But c’mooooooon. The White […]