It’s been 18 months since the White Sox traded Chris Sale to the Boston Red Sox. The move, both at the time and now, was a clear signal of the White Sox transitioning from years of toiling away in mediocrity — desperately but clumsily trying to scrap together a contender — to a rebuild, perfectly […]
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Chris Sale, Felix Hernandez, and the Road Not Taken
Usually every Felix Hernandez start against the White Sox makes me think of former-failed prospect Brian Anderson taking a young King Felix yard twice for his first two career home runs. Watching Anderson’s blonde mop bounce up and down as he grinned like a child while that damn foghorn sounded in the background of Safeco […]
South Side Morning 5: These Aren’t The Pitchers You’re Looking For
1. Ryan aptly summed up the general feelings of the most exciting pitcher in White Sox history returning in an opposing uniform Tuesday, but it was nice to see everyone playing make nice in Chris Sale’s first start in Chicago wearing a Red Sox uniform since his offseason trade to Boston. Despite Sale’s often hot-headedness and some belief […]
A New Kind Of Chris Sale Day
Chris Sale had a tremendous impact on the White Sox organization. Drafting him in the first round of the 2010 MLB Draft was a buried treasure in a trove of horrible first round failures for more than a decade. He quickly established himself as the ace of a 2012 staff that nearly limped into the postseason. While […]
It’s Spring Training time and everyone’s feelin’ fine
White Sox pitchers and catchers — as well as a good number of early-arriving position players — participated in workouts at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., for the first time Tuesday. The start of Spring Training is normally noteworthy for no other reason than because it’s the start of something. We’re still more than six […]
White Sox pitchers and tunneling
In our continuing series of digesting Jeff Long, Jonathan Judge and Harry Pavlidis’ landmark research into new frontiers of pitching analysis and lazily parroting it from a White Sox perspective, comes now a look into tunneling. To their credit, tunneling might be an even more difficult concept to quickly synopsize than the information involved in […]
New command and control pitching metrics and the White Sox
The Baseball Prospectus stats team has unleashed a new measurement on the baseball world and now we are straggling behind, desperate to catch up. Using a similar process to how they isolated catcher impact on extra strikes being called, they have isolated pitcher impact on the same result. In addition, Harry Pavlidis, Jeff Long and […]
What is Miguel Gonzalez going forward?
It’s been easy to spend the last five years of watching the White Sox obsessed with Chris Sale. The development of a generational, Hall of Fame-caliber player has felt more worth chronicling than an entire team itself, and from this framing, it’s easy to slip into the trap of viewing the fate of the Sox […]
When is the next time a Hall of Fame plaque will feature a White Sox cap?
When Frank Thomas was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014 it was the culmination of the career of one of the greatest players in White Sox history. It was also likely the last time for the foreseeable future we’ll see a player enter Cooperstown with a White Sox cap adorned on his […]
Fixing the Farm: the Nature vs. the Nurture of the Beast
It’s no secret that the offseason is long, boring, and at times completely devoid of content. As a consumer of content, this is incredibly disheartening and depressing. As a producer of content, it’s somehow worse. That is why I have turned to the great former Baseball Prospectus podcast, Up and In. The soothing tones of […]