It’s a long season and there’s a lot of ghosts the White Sox will need to exorcise over the course of the year, and Wednesday night they set about rescuing Jose Quintana from a sure no decision. 1. Quintana was not at his very sharpest, walking three and putting runners in scoring position in four […]
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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 […]
BP South Side Morning 5: Living like a cat
1. A funny thing happened among some of the principal actors in the White Sox’ stirring five-run comeback Monday night, which featured five-straight Sox hitters reaching base with two outs in the seventh: Todd Frazier and Jimmy Rollins are having good offensive months now. Rollins, who has been focused on–including here–as an undeserving occupier of the […]
South Side Morning 5: Running through the sixth starter
1. Miguel Gonzalez will be starting Monday night in Toronto, sparing John Danks from his house of horrors at the Rogers Centre, where he has a 7.27 ERA, averaged less than five innings per start, and nearly started a fight with Jose Bautista. A friendly explanation is that the Sox are dropping a spot start […]
Avila expects to go to disabled list after suffering hamstring injury
Alex Avila left Saturday’s game after the sixth inning with tightness in his right hamstring, and it looks like his ailment will prompt a roster move. Manager Robin Ventura said Avila wasn’t moving well after the game and would need to be re-evaluated, but the man himself was less optimistic about the injury he said […]
South Side Morning 5: White Sox achieving advanced levels of bumslaying
1. The Twins were supposed to be carried by their offense. With a full year of Miguel Sano and his monstrous power, solid-average to plus veterans Brian Dozier, Trevor Plouffe and even old friend Eduardo Escobar, and the growth a slew of promising youngsters including Byron Buxton and Max Kepler, the Twins were supposed to hit enough to at least […]
South Side Morning 5: Next stop, World Series
1. “The last time the #WhiteSox were 3-1 they won the 2005 World Series.” -Bob Nightengale. Well, then. Those are the stakes. 2. Mat Latos didn’t really have no-hit stuff Thursday afternoon, numbers aside. Low-90s with a loopy curve and five swings-and-misses in 88 pitches doesn’t scream “breakthrough,” but Latos’ rave reviews for his battery-mate were […]
South Side Morning 5: Opening Day
1. Chris Sale faces Sonny Gray in the best pitching matchup of Opening Day. I am aware of the Corey Kluber-David Price game, I looked them all up before I did this and decided to double down on this claim for my baseball connoisseur cred. The game played at 10:00pm EDT in a dimly-lit Dungeon […]
South Side Morning 5: Danks is fixed now
We waited a day so now there should be enough things to actually comment on in the post-LaRoche chaos White Sox world.
Did the White Sox solve their OBP issue?
With the litany of issues that plagued the White Sox offense in 2015, it would be unfair to pinpoint one specific problem and act as if it were the sole cause of their shortcomings as a team. But the issue we’re going to focus on today is their inability to get on base at a respectable clip […]