This is exactly how you would have drawn it up. The Yankees and Luis Severino have been struggling mightily, and Chris Sale has been cruising this season, so one would expect that the White Sox would take advantage of both of those facts. Well, they did. They won the first game of this three-game set […]
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Catching: A Concern
When I was younger, my friends and I would spend hours upon hours in the Michigan winters playing in the snow. One of our favorite games to play as a group was King of the Hill. We’d pile up snow as high as we could, and then half a dozen or so 10-to-12-year-olds would madly […]
It’s time to recognize Jose Quintana as one of the best pitchers in baseball
IP K/9 BB/9 LOB% GB% ERA FIP WARP Player A 45.2 8.28 1.77 84.9 40.3 1.38 2.11 1.1 Player B 50.1 8.40 1.79 82.0 45.2 1.79 2.75 1.2 If you’re a White Sox fan, you probably know where this is going. But if you’re not, the following information may be somewhat of a surprise to you. Player […]
Evaluating the White Sox Defense: [Insert “Glove” and “Love” Pun here]
The White Sox are 23-10. Last year on May 10 the White Sox beat Cincinnati by one run to move to 12-16. They are better this year. No doubt this is the hard-hitting statistical analysis you have come to expect from Baseball Prospectus. There are some very visible reasons for the improvement. The 2015 White […]
White Sox 7, Orioles 1: Bloops, a blast and a blowout
The big showdown coming into Sunday had us wondering if Chris Sale‘s ramped down approach would work again, this time against a powerful Baltimore offense. Instead the White Sox offense chasing off a typically wild Ubaldo Jimenez took center stage. 1. The Sox torched Jimenez for a five-run fifth inning in which his control problems […]
Chris Sale Day – Lineups & Preview 5/1
White Sox pitching’s untouchable start to the 2016 season has been brought back to Earth this weekend in Baltimore. They have already allowed 23 runs in this series to the AL’s best offense, and have seen John Danks stare the possible end of his run as a White Sox starter dead in the face, Mat […]
South Side Mid-day 5: The benefits of success
1. Hitting being contagious, or a contagion, as Hawk would say, might not scan, but the White Sox certainly enjoyed some effecting of cascading success Wednesday. So brutal was their treatment of Gavin Floyd, Pat Venditte, Drew Storen, and Brett Cecil over the first two nights of action (and all season), that with Marco Estrada rolling […]
South Side Morning 5: Chris Sale’s bizarre reign of terror
1. To date, we’ve had two starts of traditional-looking Chris Sale: one was a step away from greatness due to a command lapse and in the other he was just freezing cold. There has been one kitchen sink, 1,000 ways-to-kill-you masterpiece, and two starts where Sale has thrived with a couple of miles on his fastball tied behind […]
White Sox 10, Blue Jays 1: Sale and offense cruise, and living is easy
Life with the White Sox as a juggernaut is still new and strange, but the adjustment gets easier day by day 1. When is the last time the White Sox offense made Chris Sale Day a side attraction? Facing familiar punching bag R.A. Dickey, the Sox slowly turned a leak into a flood, clinging to […]
Currently Accepting All Offered Wins – Game Preview & Lineups 4/26
The White Sox are systematically trying to remove the layers of caution from our optimism, game by game. If they can endure Miguel Gonzalez making his first start of the season and emerge victorious, what chance do you think the Blue Jays have against Chris Sale? Sale has given us a bit of a different look […]