It’s been a while since the White Sox division lead took some time for self-care. For the first game of the White Sox Monday doubleheader against Cleveland — they still have to play a full series after this during a week with no off day — both teams put scuffling starters against one another and hoped to emerge standing […]
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Around the AL Central: Are the Indians good or not good?
Cleveland Indians 22-19 Last week: 5-2 (4-0 vs. Cincinnati; 1-2 @Boston) A few weeks ago in this space, I wrote about how the Indians might be in trouble after an inauspicious start, coupled with a prolonged injury to bonafide No. 2 starter Carlos Carrasco. The Indians entered the season as, by most accounts, favorites to win […]
White Sox reach crossroads with Jose Abreu
As bad as the last four games have been, the current White Sox offense is a huge upgrade over last season’s unit and possesses more potential for above-average production than anything that’s been viewable on the south side this decade. But even with their positives, they are not a unit that can paper over their […]
White Sox 3, Royals 2: The series is salvaged
Entering Sunday’s series finale against the Royals, the White Sox were on a 1-6 stretch since winning the series opener at Yankee Stadium on May 13, which is not good at all. Well, it’s two wins now if you include today. The Sox were able to salvage the last game of the three-game set largely […]
Royals 2, White Sox 1: Fifth starter gem wasted
If worrying about the back half of the rotation was getting tiresome, well, here is something else to think about. 1. The White Sox have scored four runs total in their last three games, failed to record a hit with runners in scoring position this series, lost four-straight series, and have lost five games in […]
Getting close to time to prove something – Game Preview & Lineups 5/21
If offered the opportunity at the beginning of the year to be transported to a reality where on May 21, they had a 25-17 record, the White Sox–a collective monolith and consciousness in this hypothetical–would gleefully take it, laugh and celebrate their great fortune, and pensively, but not fearfully inquire at what crimes needed committing […]
Royals 4, White Sox 1: File footage from 2013-15
If you read the papers these days, the Royals lack of options in their starting rotation and underwhelming power production from their lineup has finally started playing some actual effect on their ability to win major league baseball games. Those reports are still unconfirmed. 1. Not everything about 2016 immediately got thrown out the moment […]
How Is It Late May And We Haven’t Played the Royals?- Game Preview & Lineups 5/20
With Carlos Rodon struggling and two other rotation spots currently able to be charitably described as “questionable,” it’s pretty damn nice having Chris Sale and Jose Quintana back-to-back in the rotation. Sure, losing streaks and bumps in the road will still happen but having two legitimate aces going consecutive games at least gives your team […]
Has Chris Sale already made his adjustment?
At the start of the month, Chris Sale had his worst outing of the season. In a year marked with efficiency and far less effort and stress, the Baltimore Orioles lineup neglected to give Sale the easy outs on tapered down fastballs weaker offenses had been handing him, and his attempts to pivot and find […]
The New and Improved Melky Cabrera: What’s the Secret?
“In 2015, his strikeout rate ticked up, his BABIP dipped lower than it had been in half a decade, he walked as rarely as ever and — well, we’ve pretty much named all the parts of baseball. (He’s a bad baserunner, too. Okay, now we’ve named ‘em all.)” This quote is a portion of Melky […]