A big point of concern for Todd Frazier coming into this year was his tendency for second half slides. Sort of like his teammate Chris Sale, Frazier had a history of fading down the stretch, posting a worse triple slash line after the All-Star Break than he did before it for the last three seasons […]
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Chris Sale’s Cy Young case goes in the tank
Things were not looking perfect for Chris Sale‘s bid to win his first Cy Young Award going into Wednesday night. Despite the Bovada odds, and for all the denigration that Rick Porcello has gotten as a candidate driven forward by his fortuitous win-loss record, his ERA was all of 0.05 higher than Sale’s, and they […]
Phillies 8, White Sox 3: Sox continue charge for protected draft pick
Chris “Complete Game” Sale took the mound against Jerad Eickhoff,who is a professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies. A lopsided matchup led to a lopsided affair for the wrong team, and the Sox dropped the second game of a 2-game series in Philly. • Adam Eaton took the second pitch of the day just over […]
White Sox 7, Royals 4: Where was Carlos Sanchez all season?
Reeling from a downward spiral started by an errant Tyler Saladino throw on a hard grounder that should have ended the fifth, the White Sox did not seem primed for a breakthrough when Kelvin Herrera buzzed Todd Frazier‘s tower with one out in the top of the eighth. 1. Frazier made his unhappiness known, while Salvador […]
South Side Morning 5: A.J. On The Way Out
1. A.J. Pierzynski at least deked much of the baseball world into thinking he was retiring Saturday night; passing around cigars, having the ball from his final hit of the night authenticated, gave some cryptic quotes about being satisfied with his career. Then he promptly went back on the disabled list in early mid-September, only […]
Royals 2, White Sox 0: Offense does too little for Sale to matter
Chris Sale was not at his absolute, truly, very best. Behind his huge strikeout total, his fastball command wavered throughout, his home run problems returned, and aaaaaaalllllll of this is pointless nitpicking since the Sox offense could do nothing at all against Ian Kennedy and the Royals. 1. Absolutely nothing, complete bupkus. Sox bats managed […]
Tigers 5, White Sox 3: Extra Innings, Extra Disappointment
Coming into today’s game, the White Sox were 5-11 on the season when playing the Tigers. It’s been bad. Almost comically bad, but not quite at that level. Just more tragic, which is the 2016 White Sox season in a nutshell. 1. The game started with bang. On the third pitch of the first at […]
South Side Morning 5: Ain’t that just the way
It’s been too long. 1. Jon Heyman’s report on the White Sox being unlikely and unwilling to kickstart a rebuild or reloading of their farm system by trading Chris Sale or Jose Quintana, has three very typical elements of any update on Sox operations. –A refusal to do something radical or franchise re-shaping. –Assurance that […]
Chris Sale’s plan–whatever it is–is working
Chris Sale took a funny approach to the beginning of his 26th start of the season: he spent the early part of his day looking like a bad pitcher. His slider floated through the zone, his fastball velocity hovered around 92 mph, which is fine if he’s locating and playing it off his other devastating […]
End of August Gallimaufry
Tomorrow is September 1st and the White Sox have 31 games left to play, and it seems like a good time to step back and take stock. 1. Miguel Gonzalez is in the process of beginning his rehab outings. While Austin Jackson and Brett Lawrie initially had modest timetables for their absence that morphed into […]